August 21 Devotion - In The Son, not under the Sun

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
      And on the labor in which I had toiled;
      And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.
      There was no profit under the sun.

ثم التفت انا الى كل اعمالي التي عملتها يداي والى التعب الذي تعبته في عمله فاذا الكل باطل وقبض الريح ولا منفعة تحت الشمس

. Ecclesiastes 2:11

Solomon, known for His God given wisdom came to the conclusion after trying all the earthly pleasures that every earthly pleasure, when unconnected with higher blessings, leaves the mind as eager and unsatisfied as before.

 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest.

[I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]

Matthew 11: 28 Amplified Bible

 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

قال له يسوع انا هو الطريق والحق والحياة .ليس احد يأتي الى الآب الا بي .

John 14:6

I realize that the humble person who allows himself/herself to be disciplined by God is the really happy one - not the one who lives for ‘number one’ - for self. The first person is God-centred, and worships God; the second person is self-centred and appears to really only worship self.

 

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:

Abba Father, thank You for Your abundant blessings. Lord, please give me wisdom to learn from Solomon who ‘became great and excelled more than all who were before him’, yet found everything under the sun to be ‘vanity and grasping for the wind’.

Change my focus O’Lord from earthly glory to spiritual glory IN Your Son Jesus. I come to You Father in the name of Your Son Jesus acknowledging, declaring and confessing that Jesus is The way, The truth, and The life and that no one can come to You Father except through Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour. Strengthen me Jesus and teach me to be content under all circumstances as You taught the Apostle Paul and to be able to face any situation with the belief that ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me’. In Your holy name Jesus’, I pray. Amen.

Jesus loves you
In Him,
Wagdi Henein