The Faithclip Christian podcast makes a great daily devotional.
It is God's desire for you to be a lover of God and not a lover of self. This is Robert Woeger. And in 2 Timothy 3, 1 through 5, the Bible talks about what's going to happen with people in the end days.
They will be lovers of self. They will be covetous, proud, boastful, only concerned about their own self-worth, their own self-identity, their own self-pleasure. They will be disobedient, ungrateful, unholy, lovers of pleasure, and they will have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof.
So, the Bible says to avoid these people, because anyone who is a lover of self, instead of a lover of God, is focused on the wrong thing. God is calling you to focus on Him, to be a lover of God instead. He's talking about loving The Lord Your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all of your strength. That's Deuteronomy 6:5. For God so loved you that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die on The Cross, to redeem you from the penalty of your sins. God loves you so much, and He's rich in mercy, because even when we were dead in sins, He gave us life through Jesus Christ. So, we are to live our lives as lovers of God, and not lovers of our own pleasure, or lovers of self.
It's an exciting day to be alive, because when you have life inside of you, you can change things with your words, with your actions, with what you speak, with what you believe, and with what you live. So, I encourage you today to change your life from being a lover of pleasure, a lover of self, and instead focus on being a lover of God. Each day, pray and ask God for His help.
Ask Him to make you a lover of God, instead of a lover of the world, a lover of all the other things that are temporary and do not matter for eternity. Get a Kingdom mindset. Ask God to give you a Kingdom mindset.
Invite The Holy Spirit to teach you, and lead you, into all His Ways, and not your own ways. For when you are ready to put down your selfish desires, when you're ready to be led by The Almighty God, then things can change for the better. Start grabbing hold of promises from God's Word, from Scripture, and start speaking them daily, and continually, believing them. Let them so come into your soul, into your heart, and meditate upon them and confess them, because what's in your heart will come out of your mouth. So, have a heart transformation for being a lover of God, and allow God's Word, and His Spirit, to start changing you from the inside out, so that you can truly love Him for all eternity, because He is waiting to spend eternity with you, and He delights in those who love Him with all their heart, and all their soul, and who are also lovers of not self, but love their neighbor as their self. So, if you can love your neighbor, love other people, and treat them well, and if you can love God with all your heart and all your soul, then things will go well with you.
God bless you. My prayer is that you will be a lover of God, and enjoy the journey of life.