Shiny!

Our Daily Bread
If you haven't figured it out, I love to joke around with my family, friends and often complete strangers!  ha!  One joke involves the title of today's entry.  A few friends (and me sometimes) will stop in mid-sentence and change topics.  We all laugh and say "Shiny!", which means we stay on topic until something shiny and new catches our attention!  ha!  The shiny object always wins!

Back to the devotional, I thought about the word "shiny" when referring to the Children of God.  We should be stopping conversations and averting eyes as we are shiny for God!  Have you ever been stopped in mid-sentence by witnessing a kind act of someone?  Changed subjects instantly when you saw someone act unselfishly?  Changed the plan for your whole day when you read a moving post on Facebook?  People are naturally attracted to shiny.  Let us all be shiny for him!

Lord, thank you for being our Light.  Please help us radiate that Light to others!

Psalm Sunday
Psalm 110 is one the few psalms that I just don't get in the context of today's world.  I can read so many other psalms and get soooo very much out of them.  I understand the context of this one, but it is not one that I would read for encouragement or insight.  See you what you think.

Psalm 110

Of David. A psalm.

1 The Lord says to my lord:
“Sit at my right hand
    until I make your enemies
    a footstool for your feet.”
2 The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,
    “Rule in the midst of your enemies!”
3 Your troops will be willing
    on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
    your young men will come to you
    like dew from the morning’s womb.
4 The Lord has sworn
    and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever,
    in the order of Melchizedek.”
5 The Lord is at your right hand;
    he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead
    and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
7 He will drink from a brook along the way,
    and so he will lift his head high.

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Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:13