Joel Osteen Devotional 22 May 2025 Inspirational Message
TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE BY JOEL OSTEEN 22ND MAY 2025
God has created you to be a victor, not a victim. Jump-start your day by celebrating the very best that God has for you! These daily inspirations will help you grow in your relationship with the Lord and equip you to be.
Joel Osteen Devotional 22 May 2025 Inspirational Message
Today’s Topic: What You Smashed
Scripture: “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones….Come up to me on the mountain, and I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the ones you smashed.” – Deuteronomy 10:1–2, NLT
Today’s Word
In Deuteronomy 10, God took Moses to the top of Mount Sinai and encompassed the mountain in a great cloud, with lightning and thunder. It was a powerful, holy, majestic moment when the finger of God inscribed the Ten Commandments on two stone tablets. But afterward when Moses saw the Israelites worshipping a golden calf, he was so angry that he raised the stone tablets, something sacred that God had entrusted to him, and smashed them into pieces.
We all have mishandled something incredibly valuable that God has given us. Perhaps we let our anger, our pride, our having to be right, tear a precious relationship apart. We mishandled the career God gave us. We gave in to compromise and lost our integrity. If God gave us what we deserve, we’d be done. But God is the God of another chance. He said to Moses and to us, in effect, “You smashed something sacred. But if you go back up the mountain, I’ll give it to you again.” Don’t let guilt or regrets keep you back. He’s going to restore what you threw down.
Prayer For Today
“Father, thank You that when I make mistakes and mishandle what You’ve given me, You don’t say, ‘Too bad that you messed up. Now you’re on your own.’ Thank You that You don’t give me what I deserve but You give me another chance. I will not let regrets and guilt hold me back. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
What they did is not going to keep you from your purpose. God knew it was going to happen and He already had a plan to bring you out better, to give you beauty for the ashes, joy for the mourning. Pull up that root of disappointment, resentment. That’s poisoning your future. That’s limiting your potential, draining your energy, weakening your immune system. Don’t just deal with the symptom; get to the root. Learn to live from a place of faith. “God, I trust You. I know You’re in control. You’re fighting my battles; You’re ordering my steps. You have a good plan for my life. You’re my provider, my protector, my way-maker, my vindicator, my deliverer. God, my life is in Your hands.” That’s how you keep your soul healthy.
Why are you letting that worry take root, losing sleep, living stressed out? You’ve seen God take care of you in the past. You’ve seen Him make ways where you didn’t see a way. You’ve seen Him provide in a pandemic, give you peace in a storm, favor when you needed it. He did it back then; He’s going to do it again. He didn’t bring you this far to leave you. Why are you holding on to that guilt, beating yourself up over past mistakes? God has forgiven you; why don’t you forgive yourself? God doesn’t remember it; why don’t you quit remembering it? God has moved on; why don’t you move on?
Scripture Union Daily Guide 22nd May 2025: The song of Deborah 2
