UCB WORD FOR TODAY 9TH JULY 2025 – (WEDNESDAY DAILY DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE)
Read UCB Word For Today 9th July 2025 Daily Devotional by United Christian Broadcasters
TOPIC: Go When the Light is Green
‘He who follows Me shall… have the light of life.’
John 8:12 NKJV
In his book Deep Thoughts, Jack Handey writes: ‘As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.’
Many of us are waiting for the green light we have already been given. Jesus said, ‘He who follows Me shall…have the light of life.’ When do insight, illumination, and direction come? When you take the first steps of faith. We are not advocating a thoughtless or prayerless approach to decision-making. You need to know that God is calling you. But you can be so afraid of doing the wrong thing that you never do the right thing. It’s wise to think and rethink, but not overthink. Over analysis results in spiritual paralysis.
A pastor explains: ‘If you try to logically figure out the will of God, you’ll never take a step of faith. Why? Because the will of God is not logical. It’s theological.’ The word ‘theos’ means ‘God’. So, ‘theological’ denotes adding God into the equation. The pastor continues: ‘That’s why it doesn’t always add up on our human calculators. The promptings of the Holy Spirit won’t always make sense to your logical left brain. In fact, God ideas often seem like bad ideas. But that is when you need to allow the Holy Spirit to override your intellect.’
The disciples Jesus called did two things. They worked miracles, and they made mistakes. Had they been unwilling to make a mistake they would never have experienced the joy of working a miracle. So, go when the light is green.
FURTHER READING: Ezra 1-2, Romans 3
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