“Tuesday Devo, April 28, 2015”

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

By now, I'm sure you've heard abut the riots happening in Baltimore, Maryland. If you haven't, Google it and you'll soon see how bad things were there overnight. While there are many complicated issues at work in that whole situation which we could talk about, I just want to give this simple encouragement: let God's voice be the loudest.

The world is SCREAMING for our attention. We can very easily see manifestations of those who call evil good and call good evil. The riots in Baltimore are disheartening and tragic. And it's easy to see that and think that evil is slowly but surely overcoming God in this world. Soon there won't be any church or godliness left. That's what Satan tells us. That's what evil would try to tell us. It's in our faces, and it's easy to be distracted by that.

But for Christians, the loudest voice in our ears should be the voice of God. Jesus said his sheep know his voice and they follow him, but they don't know the voice of a stranger because they only listen to the voice of their Good Shepherd (John 10:1-5). As the church of Christ, we need to make sure that we can hear the voice of Christ above all the other voices. That we understand his ways and take confidence in his plan for us—even though the world does everything it can to broadcast evil, we do not follow the voice of strangers because we only listen to the Good Shepherd.

- Dan Lankford

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