Category: Daily Devotions

“We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don’t know what to do, we never give up. In times of trouble, God is with us, and when we are knocked down, we get up again … we know that God raised the Lord Jesus to life. And just as God raised Jesus,…

“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is…

“Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey — whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?” (Romans 6:16) Consider some of the people who are enslaved today through no…

“Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:17-18, NIV) When a crisis hits, you have to…

“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.” (Psalm 23:4, NIV) In Israel, on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho, there’s a canyon called the Valley of the Shadow of Death. In his day, King David probably traveled through it many times. Some of the…

“You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” (2 Timothy 2:1) An old saying about mentoring and apprenticeships goes something like this: “I do, you watch; I do, you help; You do, I help; You do, I watch.” Jesus trained his disciples in a way like this, and they…

“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.” (Psalm 23:4) You may not be in the valley of the shadow of death right now, but you may be in another valley. Valleys are the hard places on your journey, where it’s easy to doubt or…

“In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.” (Job 1:22) To be perplexed means to not have understanding. Think of Job. What was God’s commendation? He told Satan that there was none like Job on the earth. He was blameless, upright, feared God, and shunned evil. Job was a man with…

“… and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him. ‘Hail, king of the Jews!’ they said.” (Matthew 27:29) The hymnist Isaac Watts wrote, “See from His head, His hands, His feet, sorrow…