DAILY DEVOTIONAL 📖  

Raw Material -

It didn't take much when we were kids.  Contentment was as close as a pile of dirt, a small shovel and a few toy cars.  On rainy days happiness lived in the old vacuum cleaner hose, a few marbles and some pieces of toy railroad track.  With no more than that, the possibilities seemed endless.

 

One day when I was “old enough,” the discovery that the vacuum cleaner hose had another, more common use, was disconcerting.  Nevertheless, as a child I had the ability to use the raw material at hand to make the day more than merely livable.  Somewhere along the way, many of us misplaced the skill.  Now we require more and more to maintain even the lowest levels of satisfaction.  We ask God to provide to us an ever-increasing quantity of self-serving items, and that's so we can just “get by” spiritually.

 

In light of that inarguable reality, Peter's words are challenging.  “You already have all you need to live a godly life.  Don't complain about what you can't do.  Put the pieces together in your own life and you will find God's promises coming alive all around you.  The peace and contentment you find this way is comparable to no other.”(2 Pet1:3, NLT)

 

I already have all I need?  That's what he says.  Combining all these qualities in my life will make me effective and productive?  I think you've got it.    ~Robert McDonald

 

THOUGHT  ANOTHER REALLY BAD DAD JOKE OF THE DAY (I promise they will end soon) 🤔 How do you throw a party in outer space? 

You planet.