THURSDAY - Devotional

READ: Zechariah 4:6

(Answer the question/s below in your app notes)

• What does this verse say about your own strength compared with relying on God’s strength?

The first day of high school, my academy always did a special program called “Playdate” where we all gathered together outside and participated in various icebreaker games. For the extroverts, this was a utopia. For everyone else, it was a clustered, sweaty nightmare.

One of the classic team-building activities we did was a blindfolded relay race. One of us would go through a low-stakes obstacle course of traffic cones and basketballs while our teammate had to talk us through the course without hitting anything. I was paired with a junior girl named Adele. Adele was a foreign exchange student from Germany. Turns out, having a mastery of more than one language comes in handy when your task is giving directions. When the whistle blew, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but Adele guided me through that course as calmly and clearly as a meditation app narrator. She was confident, precise, and direct–I never touched a single obstacle.

I relied on Adele fully–without her, I was blind and useless. Similarly, God tries to tell us over and over that relying on our own strength will end up like a blindfolded trek through an obstacle course: clumsily bumping into one thing after another, frustrated and exhausted at trying to conquer the course alone. Relying on God, the sure and safe GPS, will always guide us to victory.