Category: Daily Devotions

“Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on.” (Matthew 6:25) To worry about the future is to sin against God. Someone has said, “You can’t change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly…

“[Love] bears all things.” (1 Corinthians 13:7) Love confronts sin but protects the sinner. In 1 Corinthians 13:7 Paul mentions four qualities of love that are closely related: Bearing all things, believing all things, hoping all things, and enduring all things. That might sound like love is indiscriminate and accepting of anything that comes along,…

“Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on.” (Matthew 6:25) God’s Word commands us not to worry. A story I once read reminded me that worry is like fog. According to the article, dense…

“[Love] rejoices with the truth.” (1 Corinthians 13:6) Love never compromises God’s Word. Paul has just given us a list of things that love does not do: Become jealous, brag, act arrogantly or unbecomingly, seek its own, become provoked, keep track of wrongs suffered, or rejoice in unrighteousness. Now he comes to the first of…

“So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons … And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, ‘May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.’”…

“Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for [the Lord] Himself has said, ‘I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you.’” (Hebrews 13:5) God promises to provide for all your needs. In World War II the death of many adults left many orphans.…

“[Love] does not take into account a wrong suffered” (1 Corinthians 13:5) If you love someone, you won’t keep a record of their offenses. It is reported that when the Moravian missionaries first went to the Eskimos, they couldn’t find a word in their language for forgiveness. They had to combine a series of shorter…

“They put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.” (Matthew 9:17b) Like new wine poured into fresh wineskins, everything stays spiritually fresh for the true believer. First, he or she leads a life of unquestioning obedience and follows the Lord without conditions or excuses. Not long before His ascension, Jesus told Peter, “‘Follow…

“[Love] does not seek its own.” (1 Corinthians 13:5) Love transforms selfish people into self-sacrificing people. From the time of Adam and Eve, replacing God with self has been at the root of all sin. Our first parents had only one restriction: “From the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not…