Scripture > But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here?” > > — Numbers 32:6 (ESV) Devotional Kindred has its obligations. The Reubenites and Gadites would have been unbrotherly if they had claimed the land which had been … Read more
Scripture > And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. > > — Romans 8:28 (ESV) Devotional Upon some points a believer is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets of the vessel when … Read more
Scripture > I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. > > — Haggai 2:17 (ESV) Devotional How destructive is the hail to the standing crops, beating out the precious grain upon the ground! How … Read more
Scripture > He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. > > — Daniel 11:32 (ESV) Devotional Every believer understands that to know God is the highest and best form of knowledge; and this spiritual knowledge is a source of … Read more
Scripture > for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As Jesus went, the people pressed around him. > > — Luke 8:42 (ESV) Devotional Jesus is passing through the throng to the house of Jairus, to raise the ruler’s dead daughter; but he is so profuse in … Read more
Scripture > And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. > > — Revelation 21:23 (ESV) Devotional Quietly contemplate the Lamb as the light of heaven. Light in Scripture is the emblem of joy. The … Read more
Scripture > So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. > > — Ruth 2:17 (ESV) Devotional Let me learn from Ruth, the gleaner. As she went out to gather the ears of corn, so must I go forth … Read more
Scripture > In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, > > — Ephesians 1:11 (ESV) Devotional Our belief in God’s wisdom supposes and necessitates that he has a settled purpose and plan in the work … Read more
Scripture > You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance. > > — Psalm 65:11 (ESV) Devotional All the year round, every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake his mercy waits upon us. The sun may leave us a … Read more
Scripture > And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” > > — Ruth 2:2 (ESV) Devotional Downcast and troubled Christian, come and glean today in … Read more