Recent Devotions
Proverbs 13:12. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. Every single person reading this has felt disappointment in their lives. Disappointment is no respecter of persons, age, or personality. Children, teens, and adults fall victim to this unique facet of heartache. Maybe you feel disappointed right now. Disappointment means unfulfilled expectation. I can think of so many times in my life when my goals, opportunities, or my future did not happen the way I expected. Disappointment floods a persons heart with grief and many times evokes tears. In The Message, the…
“Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because men do not keep Your law . . . I see the treacherous, and am disgusted, because they do not keep Your word.” (Psalm 119: 136, 158, NKJV). It is difficult to watch intense grief. We have all seen, or personally felt, the…
“Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom. Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.” (Genesis 13:12-13, ESV) When someone moves to a new location, there are so many…
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“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son.” Hebrews 11:17 Perhaps Abraham is one of the best examples in the Scriptures of someone who loved and worshipped the Lord for who He was rather than for the blessings he provided. God had made a promise to Abraham that he would have a son and that from his seed would come a great nation. Abraham had waited for years for Isaac. And then, God asked Abraham to do something that sounded contradictory to the promise, to…
“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.” John 15:16 This week, we have been talking about choices. We have considered different stories from the Bible where decisions had to be made and the lessons we can learn from them. It is important to remember that Jesus chose us first. Ephesians 1:4 “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,…
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:” Philippians 1:6 In most households, Christmas is over for another year, except for eating the leftovers, taking down the decorations, and setting the house back in order. But in the hearts of the family of God, Christmas lasts all year. Because, to us, Jesus is more than a baby in a manger. We are thankful that He came to earth in this humble way, but we worship Him for who He is, and for the…
My sister, Debbie, and I were talking and chuckling a bit the other day when discussing our neglect to write something in our day planner every single day. The reason is that some days we do the same thing. We jokingly said we could write what we did on Monday and “ditto” on the lines beside the remaining days of the week. There’s not much excitement in the word ditto. We’re more likely to think ditto equals boring, uneventful, dull, and yawn-worthy. And yes, ditto does mean repetition, duplication, replication, and rerun. Hey! I see you blinking like a frog…
