Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • LETHAL PLANNING

    Connect The TestamentsIsaiah 30:18–32:20; Luke 11:1–36; Job 7:11–21 I’m a planner. I love schedules. The trouble is I sometimes make plans without consulting God. While I often think of this as a modern problem, I’ve discovered that, like many other modern issues, the Bible regularly addresses it. For example, in Isaiah 30:1 Yahweh declares, “Oh…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide. — Genesis 24:63 Very admirable was his occupation. If those who spend so many hours in idle company, light reading, and useless pastimes, could learn wisdom, they would find more profitable society and more interesting engagements in meditation than in the vanities which now…

  • BEING BUSY

    Connect The TestamentsIsaiah 29:1–30:17; Luke 10:1–42; Job 7:1–10 Sometimes it’s difficult to deal with quiet. For most people, chaos, deadlines, managing multiple schedules, and being “so busy” are a way of life. And if we’re honest with ourselves, we like it. Busyness implies we are special and valued and the work we’re doing is necessary.…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work. — Psalm 92:4 Do you believe that your sins are forgiven, and that Christ has made a full atonement for them? Then what a joyful Christian you ought to be! How you should live above the common trials and troubles of the world! Since sin is…

  • HAUNTED BY LEVIATHAN

    Connect The TestamentsIsaiah 27:1–28:29; Luke 9:28–62; Job 6:14–30 Indiana Jones isn’t afraid of anything—until a snake shows up on the scene. Then we hear him mutter, “I hate snakes” and “Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?” Everyone is afraid of something. Even now your greatest fear is probably creeping through your mind—something completely…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted. — Psalm 104:16 Lebanon’s cedars are emblematic of the Christian, in that they owe their planting entirely to the Lord. This is quite true of every child of God. He is not man-planted, nor self-planted, but God-planted. The mysterious hand of the divine Spirit dropped the living…

  • AT A GREAT PRICE

    Connect The TestamentsIsaiah 25:1–26:21; Luke 9:1–27; Job 6:1–13 It’s easy to be devoted to a leader or a vision when it doesn’t require much of us. In following Jesus, the disciples didn’t have that option. They were called to follow Jesus in difficult circumstances—ones that required them to put their lives on the line. After…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice. — Psalm 97:1 Causes for disquietude there are none so long as this blessed sentence is true. On earth the Lord’s power as readily controls the rage of the wicked as the rage of the sea; his love as easily refreshes the poor with mercy as the earth…

  • PROCLAIMING THE LIGHT

    Connect The TestamentsIsaiah 23:1–24:23; Luke 8:16–56; Job 5:17–27 Many of us wait for precisely the right moment to tell others about Christ’s work in us. Yet every moment is the right moment to speak up for Christ. Every moment is the right time to fully express what Christ is doing in us and through us.…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Oh that I were as in months past. — Job 29:2 Numbers of Christians can view the past with pleasure, but regard the present with dissatisfaction; they look back upon the days which they have passed in communing with the Lord as being the sweetest and the best they have ever known, but as to…