Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart to revere your name.”
NL Daily Devotion for Monday, March 4, 2024
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
We all have a divided heart sometimes. Or maybe I can only speak for myself. When faced with hard decisions, I can get pulled in more than one direction, and find myself wanting to make the decision that’s the easiest or most comfortable for me, rather than the one that’s best (if I even know what that is). I want to turn everything over to God and listen for my next right action, but I also want to take control of the situation and just fix it according to my own designs. This dissonance isn’t sustainable. It leaves me irritable—with the situation, with the people involved, with God for not making clear what I’m supposed to do. And that irritability can spill over into completely unrelated areas.
When those things happen, I know that God is calling me back into the classroom, so to speak. God is inviting me to sit with the discomfort, to listen for what God’s way might be, to open myself to the wise counsel of others in discerning God’s truth.
When do I find my heart most divided? How do I find my way back to God’s truth?