Daily Devotion

This wisdom from above comes from a heart desiring to please God, not man. The wisdom God gives has several characteristics. It is pure, meaning free of the defilements mentioned. It is peaceable, namely, peace loving, peace-practicing, and peace-yielding. It is...

The “royal law” was given in Leviticus 19:18 and affirmed by Christ (Matt. 22:39): Love your neighbor as yourself. The law is royal or regal because it is decreed by the King of kings, is fit for a king, and is considered the king of laws. The phrase reflects the...

James was the half-brother of Jesus, he was known as James the Just. He wrote this book to the Jews and is a practical book that addresses many hard issues. James says that faith is not inactive, but evidenced by a life of action, in other words faith changes the...

Many believers have been lured away from a life of faithfulness by greed and sexual temptation (v4). Paul said in Philippians 4:11-13 He had LEARNED the secret of contentment and could do all things through Christ who strengthened him. Paul describes good...

The preceding verses speak of how blessed they are to be a part of all the blessings of the new covenant and contrasts it with the Old Testament as the writer has done many times in this Book. He then says the ones who did not heed His voice in the Old Testament...

This passage speaks to the viewpoint we as Christians should have towards hardship and opposition. Unbelievers suffer because of doing wrong and all of us suffer sometimes because of the fallen state of the world. What the writer is saying here is that Christians...

This whole chapter is dedicated to the heroes of the faith. Think of this verse, he says time would fail me to tell you of all the people who were just as mighty in their faith as all of the others he names. What this means to you and me is we can be mighty in...

Hebrews 11:1 describes what faith is. It is the confidence that God will do what He said He would do. The writer then tells us in the next 5 verses that this is what was believed in the past, and we need to know that God created it all, whether it is the visible...

Hebrews 10:19 sums up the writer’s entire argument up to this point. As Christians we don’t have to go any mediator or priest but now we can go boldly and directly to the throne room of God because of Jesus’ blood sacrifice on the cross. No more sacrifice is...

In Hebrews 10:14-18 God stresses the finished work of Jesus Christ as our Great High Priest who has offered Himself as a sacrifice with His death on the cross.  He has made all of us who trust in Christ positionally perfect, in other words in the eyes of God He...

Here the writer contrasts the High Priests in the Old Testament who daily offered sacrifices for sin and the death of Christ as a one-time sacrifice which completely and finally paid for all sin with the fact that people die once and then judgement comes when they...

Understanding means the wisdom that come from trusting in God and learning from His word. It is the ability to apply that learning to life in the light of God’s word, that is wisdom. Our wisdom or lack of it determines our prospects in this life. When we have...