Luke 6:45 ~ Daily Devotional August 30 2022

Luke 6:45 Devotional

A good man brings good things

“A good”, reads Luke 6:45, “brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart and an evil man the evil stored up in his heart”. And both men do this through their words.

Therefore, a man is what he says. His words reveal his heart – the conditions and attitudes that are in his heart.

In Matthew 7:15-20, Jesus taught that “prophets would be identified by their fruits”. That it is “the healthy tree will bear good fruit” (Matthew 7:17).

Therefore, it is out of the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks. Consequently, it is the tongue that sets the body on fire. No wonder Jesus declared that “it is not what goes into a man that makes him unclean, but what comes out of him” (Matthew 15:11).

Consequently, impulsive decisions and foolish words come out of our mouths as a result of pressure and haste respectively. They are a revelation of what our hearts contain. This is because what we are going through (for example, hardship) and what we store (for example, bitterness) in our hearts is what affects our speech.

However, unfortunately, many people don’t realize this. They think and are so deceived, that their words are disconnected from the contents of their hearts.

Therefore, if you store God’s Word in your heart, then your mouth will speak God’s Word (Psalm 119:11). And this is achieved by committing scripture verses or passages to memory.

But before you store God’s word in your heart, you have to spend time in the same. You have to be very intentional about spending time in the Bible. This is the only way to being the good man who brings out the good things stored up in them.

Prayer/Blessing

May God help you store up His Word in your heart and overflow the same through your speech thereafter. Amen.

Daily Bible Reading

Job 13-16 (see How to Read the Bible in One Year or How to Read the Bible (for Beginners))