Recent Devotions
“I can’t do nothing right.” Yes, that is a double negative. We’re looking at how double negatives are considered “incorrect” and cause confusion in standard English usage—and also in our lives. I’ve heard someone say, “Because I sinned after I got saved—after the Lord filled me with the Holy Ghost—I feel that I’ve committed a sin that cannot be forgiven by God.” It’s as if the sin committed AFTER salvation constitutes a forbidden “double negative.” But there is no sin that cannot be forgiven by God when the heart is truly repentant. Sinning again after you’re saved does not constitute…
“This sentence doesn’t make no sense.” A double negative is a sentence or clause using two negative words. The rules say that double negatives are not grammatically correct and should be avoided … when using standard English. In some languages, however, like Spanish, double or triple negatives are allowed and seen as…
In the last devotion, I told how, as a young girl, I loved to be free to “explore” our big empty church building when my mother would go there to prepare music for the Sunday service. How I loved that place! It felt like “home” to me—only more exciting! I…
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Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready. (Revelation 19:7, ESV) Weddings bring a lot of smiles, a few sentimental tears, and happiness for the couple about to embark on their new life together. The long-anticipated day has finally arrived, and the bride is radiant. A minister who had married many, many couples smilingly said he had never seen an ugly bride. This is the one day in her life when she looks most beautiful, glowing with love for her bridegroom. One thing…
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” John 14:1 With all that is going on in our world today, it is easy to become troubled and apprehensive about the future and what is going to happen next. The return of Christ is not a riddle or a code that we must solve. It is a day that we should be anticipating with joy and wonder. The enemy of our soul would like to keep us busy trying to figure it out, but all we need to do is trust the Lord is in…
“Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart” (Psalm 37:4). Oh, how we love this verse! It is probably one of the most quoted verses in the Bible. We all love the idea of God giving us our heart’s desire, but as I study this verse, I see a set of instructions we must follow to make this reward of “heart’s desire” possible. If we look at verses 3-7, we see that we are to trust, delight thyself, commit, and rest. Trust Before we can delight in the Lord, we must trust…
“O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.” Psalm 139:1-4 Many times as a child I would get a splinter in my finger. I remember one time when I tried to pick an object off our wood floor and a small sliver went under one of my fingernails. I was probably about six years…
