He
Restores Your Soul
TODAY’S
SCRIPTURE
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes
me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my
soul…
Psalm 23:1-3, ESV.
TODAY’S
WORD
God wants to restore your soul today. Your soul is your
mind, your will and your emotions. You are a three-part being: you are a
spirit—that’s the part of you that lives for eternity, you have a soul, and you
live in a body while you’re here on earth.
Your soul is where you may store hurt, disappointments or
brokenness from the past. When God restores your soul, He brings His healing
power to those broken places and makes you whole again. And when God restores
you, He makes you better off than you were before. He makes you stronger, more
alive, and more loving.
I love the picture painted in this verse. Notice that He
leads us beside quiet waters. He makes us lie down in green pastures. This is a
picture of rest. When we are resting in Him, He is able to do a work in our
lives. He is able to bring that restoration. Don’t let the busyness of life
keep you going so fast that you don’t stop and rest. Take time to be still
before the Lord and let Him restore your soul.
PRAYER
FOR TODAY
Father, thank You for leading me into a place of rest.
Today I surrender my brokenness to You and open my heart to receive Your
healing so You can restore my soul in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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5 hours ago
“Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-18a NLT)
Many of us expect that God is ready to smite us after all we’ve done wrong. The story of the prodigal son in Luke 15 forever proves that false. You’ve probably heard the story even if you haven’t read it in Scripture.
A man has two sons. One of the sons comes to the father and asks for all of his inheritance early. The father does what his son asks. But the son squanders the inheritance on wild living. He then gets a job cleaning slop from a pigpen. Starving, he realizes even the pigs he is feeding are better taken care of than he is. So the son returns home.
Instead of his father being angry and scolding him, the father runs to meet and embrace the son. The grateful father then throws a party for his long-lost son.
That’s also the story of Christmas. The Bible says all of us were dead in our sins (Ephesians 2:5). Although humanity had been created as the apex of God’s creation, we sinned and forfeited the ideal relationship we had with the Father in the Garden of Eden. But God didn’t give up on us. Instead, he gave us Christmas. He gave us Jesus.
No matter what you’ve done, who you’ve hurt, or how you’ve been treated, that’s how much God loves you right now. He loves you enough to send his Son so he can have a relationship with you.
Jesus came to reconnect you just like the prodigal son was reconnected with his father. Some people assume that God is ready to scold them when they come back to him. But God isn’t mad at you; he’s mad about you! He’s crazy about you, and he can’t stand to see what sin has done to you.
That’s the story of the Bible.
2 Corinthians 5:17-18 says, “Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ” (NLT).
The biblical term for what God has done through Jesus by bringing us back to him is “reconciliation.” When a married couple reconciles, it means the war is over. When warring nations reconcile, it means peace has come. When you reconcile accounts, they are no longer out of whack.
The Bible says that through Jesus we can finally have peace with God.
And it’s the greatest news we can ever discover.
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