WELCOME TO THE JOY OF TROY
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Services
  • Ministries
    • Sabbath School
    • Adventurer and Pathfinder Clubs >
      • Club Calendar
    • Children
    • Community Service
    • Family Ministries
    • Health
    • Men
    • Women
    • Youth
  • Calendar
    • Financial Peace University
    • 2025 Family Fun Nights
    • Annual Retreat
    • Tuesdays with the Doctor
    • Discover Something Bigger
  • Sermons
  • Devotional
  • Tithes-Offerings
  • Contact Us
  • Bulletin

September 26, 2022

9/26/2022

0 Comments

 
LIFELONG WATCHCARE

The Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands.  He has watched over your journey through this vast desert.  These forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.  Deut. 2:7, N.I.V.


They had gone into the wilderness forty years ago.  The Promised Land seemed a lifetime away.  For many it was.  Children had grown up and had children of their own.  They traveled continually over dusty and barren terrain, yet daily tasks of living had to be performed.  Despite the apparent futility of it all, they had kept busy tending flocks.

There had been a lot of complaining, a lot of despair.  To the majority it seemed as if God were just biding His time before He disposed of them.  In the meantime, He demanded their worship.  Many of these people died, but their distorted picture of God lives on.  Now it was again time to enter Canaan.  Surely the memory of what had happened before was on their minds.  So God did what He always does.  He tried to calm their fears by telling them the truth about His attitude toward them.

What He said should have convinced them that He never had intended to dispose of them.  He had given them tasks that would enable them to experience success, which they considered "blessings."  Though they did not perceive it, He had done this to rebuild their damaged self-image.  He told them that He's been with them every step of the way and that they had lacked nothing.  In essence, He told them that they mattered very much to Him and that they could trust Him to take excellent care of them.

Are you experiencing a wilderness journey?  Does heaven seem more than a lifetime away?  Does it sometimes appear futile to go on?  Then today's text is especially for you!  Though you may not feel it, you matter very much to your heavenly Father.  He knows and marks each of your steps; you shall lack nothing that is essential to your well-being.  There will always be tasks at hand at which you can succeed.  God wants you to know that He sees in you great potential.  If you allow Him to, He will so heal your life that you will never again know poverty of spirit.

To know God is to know lifelong watchcare, in a desert wilderness or upon entering Canaan.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    CONNECT ON
    ​
    Facebook

    Instagram
    ​
    YouTube
    JOIN A BIBLE STUDY

    Listen to
    My Take with Pastor Miguel Crespo

    Picture

    2023 Devotional

    This year's devotional comes from the book, Jesus Wins!--Elizabeth Viera Talbot,  Pacific Press Publishing Association

    Archives

    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Thank you for visiting our website!  
Joy of Troy Community Seventh-day Adventist Church
600 3rd Avenue, Lansingburgh, New York 12182 | 518-273-6400
Picture