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

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