North Queensferry Church

9th. December. 2021. Daily Devotion.

105 Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. Psalm 119:105

Reflect

Have you ever had a power-cut in your house recently? Have you been scrambling around hunting for a torch? Moving so slowly, banging into stuff and losing all sense of space. Without light everything has a tinge of confusion and fear about it. God has given His word to us so that we can see what is around us. We are not going to fall flat on our faces or be frightened to move because we have a lamp that is for our feet. Is God saying something specific from His word into your life? Are you acting upon it? How seriously are you taking that word?

Lord, I thank you that you don’t leave me in confusion. I don’t need to be paralysed with fear, unable to move my feet forward. Thank you that you have given your word as a lamp to my feet so that I can see what is around me. Help me to pay attention to the light. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Prayer

For your word which endures
We give you thanks
For your promises to which we hold
We give you thanks
For such intimacy with you
We give you thanks
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies
We give you thanks
For those gathered here today
We give you thanks
For family, friend and stranger
We give you thanks
For those who minister your grace
We give you thanks
For the hope that lives each Advent
of a love that has no end
We give you thanks, Amen

For Understanding Truth

Lord God, let me not put my trust in the words of men, for their minds are weak and their tongues are tainted by the world; but let me test everything having to do with faith against our only true teacher, Jesus Christ, and the true Word of God that was inspired through the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Advent Benediction

As we go forth into the world, Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the Armor of light, celebrating the time when your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; So that, at the last day, when He shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal. Amen.