Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • KINGDOM POLITICS

    Connect The TestamentsEzekiel 24:1–25:17; Revelation 11:15–12:17; Job 36:1–12 We sometimes jump on the bandwagon with politics. Yet if we put our full trust in political candidates, or believe their rise to power is an indication of our future—a common campaign platform—we’re putting our hope in something transitory. No earthly person or kingdom has absolute rule.…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    I will meditate in thy precepts. — Psalm 119:15 There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on his Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse…

  • GREENER GRASSES

    Connect The TestamentsEzekiel 23:1–49; Revelation 11:1–14; Job 35:9–16 When God’s people turn from Him, the biblical story becomes solemn, sad, and explicit. “Now as for their names, the older was Oholah, and Oholibah was her sister. And they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters, and their names are Samaria for Oholah, and Jerusalem…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. — Lamentations 3:41 The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should never know how…

  • THE POWER BEHIND THE DRAMA

    Connect The TestamentsEzekiel 21:1–22:31; Revelation 10:1–11; Job 35:1–8 The concerns that make up our mini-narratives can sometimes distract us from the great drama in which we have been cast. When a mighty angel appears with a scroll in John’s revelation, the apostle’s part in God’s great redemptive drama suddenly becomes very clear. He swaps his…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Faultless before the presence of his glory. — Jude 24 Revolve in your mind that wondrous word, “faultless!” We are far off from it now; but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in his work of love, we shall reach it one day. The Saviour who will keep his people to the end,…

  • JUDGMENT: IT’S TRICKY

    Connect The TestamentsEzekiel 19:1–20:49; Revelation 9:1–21; Job 34:31–37 Judgment is both a curse and a blessing. If you judge others, you might be judged yourself—especially if you judge them incorrectly. Yet if you know how to judge right from wrong, you can discern truth from fiction. Although judgment can be a wretched thing, there is…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Able to keep you from falling. — Jude 24 In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other respects there is no road so dangerous. It is beset with difficulties. One false step (and how easy it is to take that if grace be absent), and down we go. What a…

  • ABSENSE OF PAIN, PRESENCE OF GOD

    Connect The TestamentsEzekiel 17:1–18:32; Revelation 7:9–8:13; Job 34:16–30 When life is difficult, we often take refuge in knowing there’s a life to come—one in which we’ll be free from pain and the worries of this world. The thought brings us comfort. During the difficult times, the life to come might even be more appealing than…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Praying in the Holy Ghost. — Jude 20 Mark the grand characteristic of true prayer—“In the Holy Ghost.” The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven’s storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. We must shoot the Lord’s arrows back to him. That desire which he writes upon our…