Category: Daily Devotions

“… See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” (Romans 9:33) Read Romans 9:19–33. St. Paul knows what it is like to stumble: To trip over his best intentions in his…

“All of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.” (2…

“The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.” (Psalm 103:8) Read Psalm 103:1–8. Do you ever get frustrated with others around you because they seem to do the same thing that irritates you or lets you down? Do you have those friends who always cancel a catch-up at the last minute?…

“All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on Him the sins of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6, NLT) The world is full of heart disease today — but not just the physical kind. There are many spiritual diseases of the heart, like…

“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” (Romans 8:18) Read Romans 8:18–25. Suffering is not something we enjoy going through in life. We don’t want to suffer; we want to be comfortable in the things we do. Many of us hate being out…

“Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.” (Mark 4:27) Read Mark 4:3-20. Have you sown a “seed” of faith, and now you’re wondering when you will reap the “harvest” God promised in His Word? If so, read on: “The kingdom of God…

“My people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me — the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!” (Jeremiah 2:13, NLT) The sad reality is this: We live in a broken, fallen world — a world where sin and evil exist.…

“There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.” (Proverbs 14:12) You can be sincere in your intentions — but sincerely wrong. The Bible says the rain falls on “the just and the unjust alike” (Matthew 5:45). The law of cause and effect applies to everybody,…

“The LORD is kind to everyone who trusts and obeys Him.” (Lamentations 3:25, CEV) We live on a broken planet, with natural disasters, physical decay, and death. There’s emotional distress and disappointment, distance and discord in relationships, and spiritual discontent and darkness. It’s no wonder why there is an epidemic of hopelessness in our world.…