DAY 15

“God is like the mother grizzly that protects her cubs. It is God’s instinctive nature because we are the apple of His eye. If anyone messes with us, they are messing with our heavenly Father.”

- Mark Batterson

TODAYS READING: Psalm 35

PRAYER: "God, as I open myself up to you in these moments to read this passage fresh and anew, I ask that you reveal to me that which you would have me learn today. Help me see. More than that, I pray for transformation as I take what you show me and apply it to my life. Amen."

It does not take a person long to realize the great inequity that exists between the believer and the non-believer. They truly live by two different standards. Several years ago I was hurrying to work driving a little too fast. One of my co-workers cornered me later and said, "You were speeding this morning. I thought Christians did not speed."

I was really surprised, but my co-worker was right; I should have slowed down. I realized then, that non-believers hold us to a different standard than the one they live by. In this Psalm, they even go a step farther. Even though David grieved at their illnesses, they laughed at him when he was ill. Actually, they not only laughed, but they rejoiced!

David prayed that the Lord would vindicate him. However, just a few verses later he cried out to God and said, Lord, who is like You, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him. He realized that God is just; He upholds the cause of the poor as well as the cause of the righteous. We're not apt to be like that; we like to fall in line with the ungodly and backbite them as they do us. Many times God allows us to be ridiculed by the wicked around us to test us. Do we really believe that God will uphold our cause?

Pray today that God will give you patience with the non-belivers around you and that you will pray for their salvation and ignore the grief they send knowing that God will vindicate His people.

Challenge: Will you join me today and choose God's unconstitutional love.

Prayer: Lord, condition my heart to love like you love. Amen.

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