<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+16:1-11">Psalm 16:1-11</span></span></p><p>We continue expanding the theme we touched on yesterday - the danger of allowing our faith to become more man-centered than God-centered. Whenever I have the opportunity to address Christian counselors I try to urge them to put the glory of God before their client's well-being. A good deal of "Christian counseling" today follows the client-centerd approach where the person is all-important. Thus more attention is paid to how the person has been hurt by others than how he or she may be hurting God by being unwilling to trust Him. This is a very sensitive issue, and I tell counselors in training that it must never be brought up until other issues have been explored and understood. But ultimately, however, this is the issue we must all face, whether we are in counseling or not. Ask yourself this question now: Do I allow myself to be more overwhelmed by the wrong people have done to me than the wrong I might have done (and may still be doing) to God by my unwillingness to trust Him? Putting the glory of God before our well-being does not go down well with some modern-day Christians brought up in the "Me" generation. It means that we have to break away from the idea that life revolves around our desires, our ambitions, our self-image, our personal comfort, our hurts and problems, but instead around the glory and the will of God. When we learn to apply the great text before us today to our lives we will find, as did the psalmist, that when we set the Lord always before us then no matter what happens we will be stirred, but not shaken.</p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Father, thank You for reminding me that I cannot avoid my soul being "stirred" by life's problems, but when I have set You ever before me, then I can avoid being "shaken." Drive this truth deep into my being this very day. In Jesus' Name. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="1sa+4:1-22">1 Samuel 4:1-22</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ex+33:12-18">Exodus 33:12-18</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+29:1-2">Psalm 29:1-2</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>Is there a parallel between this account and today's Church?</li><li>What was Moses' request?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken." (v. 8) 

<p> God's glory is the result of his nature and acts. He is glorious in his character, for there is such a store of everything that is holy, and good, and lovely in God, that he must be glorious. The actions which flow from his character are also glorious; but while he intends that they should manifest to his creatures his goodness, and mercy, and justice, he is equally concerned that the glory associated with them should be given only to himself. Nor is there aught in ourselves in which we may glory; for who maketh us to differ from another? And what have we that we did not receive from the God of all grace? Then how careful ought we to be to walk humbly before the Lord! The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High. Shall the insect of an hour glorify itself against the sun which warmed it into life? Shall the potsherd exalt itself above the man who fashioned it upon the wheel? Shall the dust of the desert strive with the whirlwind? Or the drops of the ocean struggle with the tempest? Give unto the Lord, all ye righteous, give unto the Lord glory and strength; give unto him the honour that is due unto his name. Yet it is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-"Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be glory. " It is a lesson which God is ever teaching us, and teaching us sometimes by most painful discipline. Let a Christian begin to boast, "I can do all things," without adding "through Christ which strengtheneth me," and before long he will have to groan, "I can do nothing," and bemoan himself in the dust. When we do anything for the Lord, and he is pleased to accept of our doings, let us lay our crown at his feet, and exclaim, "Not I, but the grace of God which was with me!" </p>

This timeless classic from Charles Spurgeon will help to both start and end your day with wonderful insight into God's Word.

Charles Spurgeon's Morning & Evening

"Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name." - Psalm 29:2

Morning Devotional

<p><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num poetry-line">2 </sup><poetry>Ascribe to the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> the glory due his name;<br/><indent>worship the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> in the splendor of his  holiness.  </indent><span class="pb"></span></poetry> </span></p>

Ascribe to the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> the glory due his name;<br/><indent>worship the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> in the splendor of his<ft>1</ft> holiness.<cr>1</cr> </indent><pb/>

Psalm 29:2

 2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of his  holiness.   

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<p><span class="bible-text "><poetry>Ascribe to the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> the glory due his name;<br/><indent>worship the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> in the splendor of his  holiness.  </indent><span class="pb"></span></poetry> </span></p>

 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of his  holiness.   

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