Burning Question:
When did you find out it was all your fault?
Morning Devotional:
I don’t remember how old I was, but I was old enough to know better.
My mom recently reminded me of a time when I was a toddler and was being rather defiant. I loved to jump on our couch, and on this one afternoon my mom was trying to get me to stop doing it. I wasn’t listening to her orders and sure enough, a few high jumps later I lost my footing and fell, hitting my head on the edge of the coffee table. My mother rushed me to the nearest emergency room to have my head checked out. I came home with stitches and my parents came home with a very unwanted medical bill.
Thankfully, my penchant for couch jumping eventually went away. I found various other activities to keep my parents both busy and worried for several more years. What never went away was the scar. I still have the mark on my forehead to this day from when my head hit the coffee table.
A devotional I read yesterday and its accompanying scripture passage had me thinking quite a bit about my forehead scar.
Paul writes this in Romans 5:19: “For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.”
Things that we do in life can leave an impact. As this verse says, by one man’s disobedience, many were made sinners. Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, taking of the fruit they were told not to. Because of that sin, we all deal with the effects. It left an impact.
Every day, our lives are leaving a mark on this world. Adam and Eve’s failure in the Garden of Eden left a huge mark on mankind – one that took Jesus Christ, the Son of God to remedy. You and I have the ability and opportunity to make a pretty big mark on the world ourselves. We can live our lives in a way that influences others to walk with the Lord or walk away from Him. As you examine your heart, what kind of mark are you leaving in your realm of influence?
– Beth
Bible Quiz:
Question: What church had believers that were a part of Caesar’s household?
Storytime: I gave myself a 70% chance of success