David Jeremiah Devotional 26th January 2024: Before Anything Else
TURNING POINT DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR 26 JANUARY 2024 BY DR DAVID JEREMIAH
Welcome to David Jeremiah Devotional, an American evangelical Christian author, founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church. Read and digest the word of the lord for today and see how powerfully it will impact you. God bless you.
Today’s Topic: Before Anything Else
SCRIPTURE: Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1
Recommended Reading: John 14:27
DAVID JEREMIAH’S TURNING POINT JANUARY 26TH, 2024
The road to personal peace is a multilane highway in today’s world. There is a lane for peace through prosperity, peace through prestige, peace through possessions, peace through personal achievements, and more. But all those lanes to peace omit the one lane that is necessary before all others: peace with God. Once we have peace with God, it doesn’t matter what things happen in our life. In God, we can have a clear conscience and true contentment knowing that we are secure and protected in Him.
That raises the question: How do we find peace with God? In his letter to the Romans (chapter 4), after Paul explained how Abraham gained a relationship with God (by believing God—Genesis 15:6), he said that we find peace with God the same way: by being “justified by faith…through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1). Abraham was declared righteous by God, not by his deeds or works but by simply believing in Him. And we are declared righteous the same way (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Before you look for peace anywhere else, make sure you have peace with God through faith in Christ.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C.S. Lewis
Read-Thru-the-Bible: Exodus 35 – 37