LifeLink Devotions for Friday, August 29, 2025

How great is our God! His glory is being revealed.

Our choice of focus determines our attitude about those statements. Surrounded by hardships, tragedies, and negativity, it is easy to become discouraged and even depressed. Unfulfilled dreams become wet blankets thrown over the flames of faith. Personal failures force the pride of life to turn our attention inward in a misguided attempt to find pleasure in pity. All of which turn our attention toward self and we miss seeing the glory of God.

That’s where you might find yourself today. The Enemy of our soul may be attacking viciously in an attempt to turn your focus from the face of Jesus to fear generated by any of the following:

• Worldwide tragedies of war and nature.
• Economic hardships projected upon our personal finances, which may cause us to consider stealing from God to pay our bills and fulfill our own dreams.
• Hurtful words spoken by others become more believable than God’s Word as the statement of our worth.
• Pride that turns the focus inward on personal pain rather than the pain we caused in others, hindering true repentance and forgiveness.

These are the things that oppose the glory of God in our lives today. Yet I hear the voice of God calling out from Isaiah 40 verses 3-5. “A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”  

Oh that I might see the glory of God today. Reveal yourself, O Lord, in ways today that grab my attention and snap my head up to look at you.

Pastor John