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
Scripture > Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night. > > — 1 Chronicles 9:33 (ESV) Devotional Well was it so ordered in the temple that the sacred chant never ceased: … Read more
Scripture > I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. > > — John 17:23 (ESV) Devotional If such be the union which subsists between our souls and the person of our … Read more
Scripture > All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. > > — John 6:37 (ESV) Devotional No limit is set to the duration of this promise. It does not merely say, “I will not cast out a sinner at his first coming,” … Read more
Scripture > And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept. > > — Mark 14:72 (ESV) Devotional It has been thought by some that as long as Peter lived, … Read more
Scripture > All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. > > — John 6:37 (ESV) Devotional This declaration involves the doctrine of election: there are some whom the Father gave to Christ. It involves the doctrine of effectual calling: these who are … Read more
Scripture > Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. > > — Psalm 73:23 (ESV) Devotional “Nevertheless,”–As if, notwithstanding all the foolishness and ignorance which David had just been confessing to God, not one atom the less was it true and certain that David was saved and accepted, and that the … Read more
