Recent Devotions
“But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.” (Romans 8:25, ESV) I’ve quit rushing. Well, at least some of the time. I still look for the shorter line at the grocery store, but I just as frequently will motion someone with only a few items ahead of me. No, I’m not an angel in disguise; I just try not to worry about delays. Some days I succeed better than others. We live in an impatient world. Someone has called this the “microwave generation” because we have come to expect instant gratification. When…
“Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” (I Timothy 4:12, ESV) If you are a social media follower, you may have noticed the number of “influencers” trying to get your attention as they…
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.” (Psalm 23:1) Psalm 23 is probably one of the most beloved passages in the Bible. Many of us memorized it as a child and have read it innumerable times since. It is a beautiful psalm. This week I began to ponder…
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We don’t know what we don’t know. Selah. In our last devotion, we discussed how that trusting our feelings alone will not lead us to TRUTH. There’s so much we don’t know. Which is better … for something to FEEL true, or for something to BE true? For those who say, “I don’t know! I’ll just follow my heart!” Jeremiah cautioned: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” … so, does the heart make for a good guide? True faith is not what you FEEL; it’s what (and Whom) you KNOW. Rather than “feeling” our way through…
“The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man …” (Psalm 94:11 KJV) “The LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee …” (1 Chronicles 28:9 KJV) Now and forever, God is a SPIRIT—Omnipresent, Omnipotent, and Omniscient. Even when God was manifest in the flesh as the man Christ Jesus, still the Spirit of God was at work everywhere, reading hearts, thoughts, and minds. There is no place where the Spirit of God cannot go, nothing He cannot know, and nothing that can be hid from Him. It’s…
“Then Job answered and said, Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.” Job 23:1-6 In this chapter we see Job admitting that his complaints seemed rebellious, but can we blame him after…
“He got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.” John 13:4–5, NIV. The mood is somber; conversation is dismal, and the spiritual climate is changing. Jesus is aware that His time on earth is concluding and with death quickly approaching He, like anyone who knows they are about to die, imparts a few last life lessons to those who are closest to Him. Instead of relishing in…
