Dear Friends,
People sometimes complain that their life is not fruitful in the way they know it should be. Why is their life less fruitful than they wish? Today’s devotional should put your finger on the problem. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• Psalm 1:1-3 (ESV)

  1 Blessed is the man
  who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
  nor stands in the way of sinners,
  nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
  2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
  and on his law he meditates day and night.
  3 He is like a tree
  planted by streams of water
  that yields its fruit in its season,
  and its leaf does not wither.
  In all that he does, he prospers.

“Sometimes I grow weary when people come sighing to me over their poor progress in the Christian life, wondering why they do not make more headway. When I ask, ‘Do you meditate in God’s Word day and night? Do you really dig into the Bible every day?’ ‘Oh, no, not every day,’ they reply. ‘I am very busy…. I cannot find time to get down to solid Bible study every day.’ ‘Do you read the newspaper every day?’ ‘Y-e-s, morning and evening.’ And no time to be alone each day and listen to God? Thou fool!’ [R. A. Torrey, You and Your Bible, (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1958), p. 92]

“O gracious and Holy Father, give us wisdom to see Thee, intelligence to understand Thee, diligence to seek Thee, patience to wait for Thee, eyes to behold Thee, a heart to meditate upon Thee, and a life to proclaim Thee, through the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ our Lord.” [St. Benedict in Forward Day By Day, {August-October, 1985}, (Cincinnati: Forward Movement Publications, 1985), p. 95]