Daily Devotion
APPLYING WISDOM
Proverbs 22:17-19 This section all the way to chapter 24:34 is to stress the importance of applying the wisdom previously given in other sections. The writer calls us to dig into this great amount of wisdom He has given us, that will lead to a deeper trust in the...
FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD
As Christians we ought to obey the laws of the land because the Bible tells us to unless it violates Christian principles that are specifically spelled out, or our conscience based on Biblical guidelines. We are free in Christ in the sense that we have been set...
DEVELOPING AN APPETITE FOR THE WORD
1 Peter 2:2-3 Peter urges those who are Christians to desire the milk of the word which can either be Christ or the word of God itself. Either way we are to long for and develop an appetite for the things of God, especially for Christ and His word which teaches us...
THE WORD OF GOD
1 Peter 1:24 is a quotation from Isaiah 40:6-8 that expresses the passing of everything away except the Word of God. All eventually goes away and disappears but not His living and abiding word. It not only will not pass away but neither do those to whom it gives...
OUR HEART AND OUR MOTIVES
Here we are told to carefully examine our motives and reasons for all we do because the Lord sure does. Our natural tendency is to justify all we do, but often we are wrong for doing this. David prayed in Psalm 139:23-24 that God would examine His heart and show...
THE WISDOM GOD GIVES
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...
WHERE DO YOU GO FOR HELP?
The writer looked up to the Sovereign Lord of the universe and prayed for Him to send deliverance from His heavenly throne. This should be the prayer of all of us. Where do you look for help, where is the first place you look or who do you go to? It should be to...
DO YOU KNOW THIS PEACE?
We can rest and be at peace because God has and always will deal with us in a generous way if we are believers. God always gives us way more than we deserve as the next verse speaks to in delivering from death, tears, and falls which could speak to spiritually...
ARE WE LISTENING AND OBEYING?
Jeremiah received another message from the Lord. He was to go to the gate of the temple in Jerusalem and deliver a prophecy in God’s name to the people of Judah who entered to worship. This message applies to us also as in the next verse Jeremiah was to tell them...
LISTENING AND DOING
The Lord called all the people then alive in Judah, to pay attention to, and to take to heart, His message to them. He had not been as ungiving as a wilderness or as unenlightening as darkness to them. They had no reason to feel free to abandon Him. Let us remember...
BEING THANKFUL FOR GOD’S MERCY
Aren’t we thankful that God is so totally different from us! He does not punish us immediately or completely like we deserve for the sins we commit. He doesn’t pay us back (get even) with us and give us the punishment we deserve. His love is a loyal love and is...
HIS SPIRIT AND WORD
God promised with a covenant promise that He would not withdraw His Spirit or His Word from His people on whom He would place them (cf. Jer. 31:31-44). This is a reference to the New Covenant. The Spirit would abide on His people forever, and His Word would remain...
