BBD 04.14.21 All Bogged Down (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

Burning Bush Devotional

14 April 2021

All Bogged Down

A certain
man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me
the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.
And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a
far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he
had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in
want. Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and be sent
into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his stomach with
the pods that swine ate, and no one gave him anything. - Luke 15:11-16 NKJV.

You
will be excited to know that there is a new world champion in the sport of Bog
Snorkeling. Philip John from south Wales completed a 60-yard course snorkeling
through a four-foot deep trench of mud dug out in a peat bog. There were 90
brave individuals who competed in the contest, and they were allowed snorkels
and flippers. One of the competitors who is from Ireland, Julia Galvin, said, “Its an unforgiving sport. You get bitten by insects,
very dirty, smelly and you are wet all day.”

While
working in the oilfield, I once was unable to get to the drilling rig location
because of a muddy road. But they had a huge bulldozer pull my truck two miles
through the mud and into the location where we walked around in mud knee high.
I noticed something about the mud - it slows everything down. Just like the
competitors snorkeling in the bog, would be unable to swim as fast as someone
in clear water, it's not easy to pick up your boot and take a step with mud
clinging to it. The prodigal son experienced the bogging down effect of sin.
The farther you are from the Father the more difficult it becomes.

Whenever
you sin, it complicates your life and slows down your progress spiritually and
delays the fulfillment of God’s will in your life. Spiritually living outside
of God’s will is like being in a bog of mud or walking around in knee-deep mud.
Thankfully, there is a solution for us when we become all bogged down. The
solution is the same one that the prodigal son found. The only solution
is to return to the Father. Turn back to God! When the
prodigal son came to himself, he remembered that even the servants in his
Father’s house had it better than he had it.

Are you
all bogged down? Don’t be like the
Israelites, who because of their disobedience took 40 years to reach the
Promised Land when it should have only taken 9 ½ days. Turn to God because only
He has the power to lift you up and clean you off. Only God has the power to
forgive you and give you a new beginning.

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; Gwen P.; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison; JoJo,
Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had
a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew
Collins; Shonda H. (fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife, Jeanie, who
is having a problem with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
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Classic from 2002

Burning Bush Devotional

14 April 2021

All Bogged Down

A certain
man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me
the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.
And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a
far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he
had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in
want. Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and be sent
into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his stomach with
the pods that swine ate, and no one gave him anything. - Luke 15:11-16 NKJV.

You
will be excited to know that there is a new world champion in the sport of Bog
Snorkeling. Philip John from south Wales completed a 60-yard course snorkeling
through a four-foot deep trench of mud dug out in a peat bog. There were 90
brave individuals who competed in the contest, and they were allowed snorkels
and flippers. One of the competitors who is from Ireland, Julia Galvin, said, “Its an unforgiving sport. You get bitten by insects,
very dirty, smelly and you are wet all day.”

While
working in the oilfield, I once was unable to get to the drilling rig location
because of a muddy road. But they had a huge bulldozer pull my truck two miles
through the mud and into the location where we walked around in mud knee high.
I noticed something about the mud - it slows everything down. Just like the
competitors snorkeling in the bog, would be unable to swim as fast as someone
in clear water, it's not easy to pick up your boot and take a step with mud
clinging to it. The prodigal son experienced the bogging down effect of sin.
The farther you are from the Father the more difficult it becomes.

Whenever
you sin, it complicates your life and slows down your progress spiritually and
delays the fulfillment of God’s will in your life. Spiritually living outside
of God’s will is like being in a bog of mud or walking around in knee-deep mud.
Thankfully, there is a solution for us when we become all bogged down. The
solution is the same one that the prodigal son found. The only solution
is to return to the Father. Turn back to God! When the
prodigal son came to himself, he remembered that even the servants in his
Father’s house had it better than he had it.

Are you
all bogged down? Don’t be like the
Israelites, who because of their disobedience took 40 years to reach the
Promised Land when it should have only taken 9 ½ days. Turn to God because only
He has the power to lift you up and clean you off. Only God has the power to
forgive you and give you a new beginning.

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; Gwen P.; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison; JoJo,
Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had
a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew
Collins; Shonda H. (fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife, Jeanie, who
is having a problem with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

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the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email
to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the
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