Daily Devotional

"This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success."  (Joshua 1:8)

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith."

"Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy FIRST LOVE."

The opposite of glory is shame. Life is designed to be gloriously lived, not shamefully lived. Jesus, from birth to death, lived a glorious life. His whole life was wrapped in glory. He was truly and utterly human, but the glory upon Him was totally divine. John says of Jesus, "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among...

"I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I SAID NOT UNTO THE SEED OF JACOB, SEEK YE ME IN VAIN: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right."

The cross has two sides to it: the human and the divine. The four Gospel writers report the human side of the cross. They show us that the cross is man's doing. Matthew says, "And they crucified him." Mark says, "And it was the third hour, and they crucified him." Luke writes, "There they crucified him." John declares, "Where they crucified him." ...

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."

"For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me."

"And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the...

"And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders."

"And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah…"