08-29-2019, 03:50 PM
LIVING WATER CAC DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Thursday, August 29, 2019 - International Day against Nuclear Tests
CREATIVITY: GOD'S NATURE
READ: Exodus 35:30-36:1
MEMORISE:
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10)
EXPOSITION
Creativity is the ability one has to make innovations, or think of new ideas. It takes place when something is made out of nothing, or when something extra-ordinary is made out of the ordinary. Creativity is the nature of God.
In Genesis 1, "God made", is repeatedly mentioned (vv. 7,11,25,31), buttressing God's creative power. Interestingly, out of all that God created, He made man in his own image and likeness (v. 27; 5:1), so that we too can carry His creative power.
After God had finished the work of creation on the sixth day, He handed over further creative acts to the man He created. We are to use our creative powers to make further discoveries out of the treasures God has already deposited in, and around us. God has endowed us with the intrinsic ability to create and design beauty from nothing (Exo. 35:30-36:1). You have to work on your ability to think big and deep, because if you cannot think, you cannot create new ideas and things. Martin Luther once said, "The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship."
God did not create you to be problem to other people. You are created to be a problem-solver, and all what you need is to discover the treasures that have been deposited in you. You are more than ordinary (cf. Psa. 139:14). You cannot be in Christ and remain a good-for-nothing person.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Help me, O Lord, to harness the creative power You have put in me; let new ideas begin to flow within me, for my life to have impact in my generation.
2. Lord, help our undergraduate students to discover their creative prowess, so that the society would not be bereft of innovations that would keep it smoothly running.
3. Pray against the attempt of some elements to use technological powers, including nuclear power, to cause disaster on people, anywhere.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Psalms 84:11 - 89:6; 1 Corinthians 3:15 - 4:13
Thursday, August 29, 2019 - International Day against Nuclear Tests
CREATIVITY: GOD'S NATURE
READ: Exodus 35:30-36:1
MEMORISE:
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10)
EXPOSITION
Creativity is the ability one has to make innovations, or think of new ideas. It takes place when something is made out of nothing, or when something extra-ordinary is made out of the ordinary. Creativity is the nature of God.
In Genesis 1, "God made", is repeatedly mentioned (vv. 7,11,25,31), buttressing God's creative power. Interestingly, out of all that God created, He made man in his own image and likeness (v. 27; 5:1), so that we too can carry His creative power.
After God had finished the work of creation on the sixth day, He handed over further creative acts to the man He created. We are to use our creative powers to make further discoveries out of the treasures God has already deposited in, and around us. God has endowed us with the intrinsic ability to create and design beauty from nothing (Exo. 35:30-36:1). You have to work on your ability to think big and deep, because if you cannot think, you cannot create new ideas and things. Martin Luther once said, "The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship."
God did not create you to be problem to other people. You are created to be a problem-solver, and all what you need is to discover the treasures that have been deposited in you. You are more than ordinary (cf. Psa. 139:14). You cannot be in Christ and remain a good-for-nothing person.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Help me, O Lord, to harness the creative power You have put in me; let new ideas begin to flow within me, for my life to have impact in my generation.
2. Lord, help our undergraduate students to discover their creative prowess, so that the society would not be bereft of innovations that would keep it smoothly running.
3. Pray against the attempt of some elements to use technological powers, including nuclear power, to cause disaster on people, anywhere.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Psalms 84:11 - 89:6; 1 Corinthians 3:15 - 4:13