Joel Osteen Devotional 22nd May 2025 (Thursday) Message. Today’s Word With Joel & Victoria Osteen.
Joel Osteen Devotional 22nd May 2025 (Thursday) TOPIC: What You Smashed
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
“Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones….Come up to me on the mountain, and I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the ones you smashed
TODAY’S WORD
In Deuteronomy 10, God took Moses to the top of Mount Sinai and encompassed the mountain in a great cloud, with lightning and thunder. It was a powerful, holy, majestic moment when the finger of God inscribed the Ten Commandments on two stone tablets. But afterward when Moses saw the Israelites worshipping a golden calf, he was so angry that he raised the stone tablets, something sacred that God had entrusted to him, and smashed them into pieces. We all have mishandled something incredibly valuable that God has given us.
Perhaps we let our anger, our pride, our having to be right, tear a precious relationship apart. We mishandled the career God gave us. We gave in to compromise and lost our integrity. If God gave us what we deserve, we’d be done. But God is the God of another chance. He said to Moses and to us, in effect, “You smashed something sacred. But if you go back up the mountain, I’ll give it to you again.” Don’t let guilt or regrets keep you back. He’s going to restore what you threw down.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
“Father, thank You that when I make mistakes and mishandle what You’ve given me, You don’t say, ‘Too bad that you messed up. Now you’re on your own.’ Thank You that You don’t give me what I deserve but You give me another chance. I will not let regrets and guilt hold me back. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
About Joel Osteen
Raised in Houston, Texas, with a loving family of seven and world-renowned parents in full-time ministry, Joel Osteen never imagined that he would follow so closely in his father’s footsteps. As a young man, his training and interests were behind the scenes in television production, though he was close to his father in ministry. (Joel Osteen Daily Devotional May 22 2025)