Posts with the category “daily-devotional”

Today's Reading: Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 11:1-5 We looked at the passage from Isaiah 9 in some detail in the sermon last Sunday. God promised to send His light into the world in the form of a baby - but not just any baby! That baby would be 100% man - he would be "born" - and 100% God - the names He is given belong to God alone.In Isaiah 11, we get a further description of that light. He will be from...  Read More

Today's Reading: Genesis 49:8-12 In this chapter, we read Jacob's blessings that he pronounced on each of his sons.Our reading is his blessing on his son Judah. In contrast to his older brothers - Reuben, Simeon and Levi - Judah receives a favorable blessing. Every line of this blessing is prophetic and points ahead to Jesus, the Messiah. It is God's promise that the Messianic seed of the woman fr...  Read More

Today's Reading: Luke 1:1-4We're going to switch things up a bit for our Advent Bible reading plan. Most of the passages we'll be reading will be fairly short, so we'll have a reading for every day now through Christmas Day. I want to encourage you to consider reading these daily passages together as a family and discussing their significance. This is a great way to keep the focus on the real mean...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 149:1-9Read the passage and answer these two questions:What does this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?Today we wrap up this reading plan. I hope that you have enjoyed focusing on the attributes of God as much as I have. As you continue your Bible reading beyond this plan, I...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 147:1-20Read the passage and answer these two questions:What does this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My thoughts on Psalm 145:This Psalm is just full of the attributes of God - most of which we've covered at some point in this reading plan. What really strikes me here is ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 145:1-21Read the passage and answer these two questions:What does this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My thoughts on Psalm 139:God knows everything about me. He formed in my mother's womb. He planned out all the days of my life before I was born. That means that I can be 1...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 139:1-24Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My thoughts on Psalm 136:It's pretty easy to pick out an attribute of God in this Psalm, right? We've commented before on God's hesed - His enduring love. Hesed describes a...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 136:1-26Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My thoughts on Psalm 130:In this passage we are reminded that we have a God who delights in forgiving and redeeming those who will humble themselves before Him and accept t...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 130:1-8Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?Happy Thanksgiving!I'm going to take a break from my usual commentary today. As we've been reading through a number of the Psalms and focusing on the attributes of God, we h...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 125:1-5Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 121:Here we see that not only is God the creator of all, He is actively involved in the operation of that creation. He knows and sees all. And He ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 121:1-8Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 99:This Psalm focuses on the idea that God is holy. As we've discussed before the word "holy" means to be "set apart". It means that God is not ju...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 99:1-9Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 93:The main attribute I see in this Psalm is God's power. He is absolutely capable of doing whatever He wants and no one or nothing can stop Him fr...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 93:1-5Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 90:Like most of the Psalms we have been reading, this one authored by Moses contains a number of God's attributes. But since it hasn't come p as fr...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 90:1-17Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 86:There are a number of attributes of God that are present in this Psalm: His forgiving nature, His grace, His mercy, and His greatness. But even...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 86:1-17Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 75:God alone is qualified to judge man. He alone gets to set the standards and determine who to judge and who to lift up. He alone gets to choose ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 75:1-10Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 73:Here we see several attributes of God:He sees and knows all. The wicked might think they are getting away with their sin, but they will ultimat...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 73:1-28Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 66:We see many attributes of God in this Psalm but the one that strikes me is His power. Not only did He create the entire world but He continues ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 66:1-20Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 65:There are several attributes of God we could focus on here, but I'm going to concentrate on the idea of "election", which is evident in verse 4...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 65:1-13Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 58:Once again we see that God is a just God who does judge and punish the wicked. That is not a popular message in our culture today, but it is no...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 58:1-11Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 57:Although we've certainly seen it before throughout our readings in the Psalms, I want to focus on God's mercy this morning. Here is this Psalm ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 52:1-23Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 50:Here we see once again that God delights in saving those whose hearts are turned toward Him. He is not impressed with outward acts, liking maki...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 50:1-23Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 47:Although it may not seem like it at times, God is the King of this earth. He has complete sovereignty over everything that occurs here. And we ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 47:1-9Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 46:Not only do we God's sovereignty here, but we also discover that He is powerful enough to carry out His purposes, plans and ways however He want...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 46:1-11Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 40:There are several attributes of God that David refers to explicitly in this Psalm: His steadfast love (we've seen this frequently in the Psalms...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 40:1-17Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 37:We clearly see that God is just and righteous in this Psalm. Often, in this world, that may not appear to be the case. We observe wicked people...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 37:1-40Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 34:Here we see a God who delights in responding to those who humbly cry out to Him. He is a God who hears and listens to His children. He is also ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 34:1-22Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 33:Like almost every Psalm that we've read so far, there are a number of attributes of God present in this Psalm. But what we see here is that man...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 33:1-22Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 29:This psalm revolves around two words/phrases:"the voice of the Lord""glory"There is definitely a connection between the two. Let's focus first ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 29:1-11Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 25:There are a number of attributes of God that are apparent here: His steadfast love (remember our discussion on hesed), His mercy, His faithfuln...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 25:1-22Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 23:This is undoubtedly most people's favorite Psalm and I'm not sure that I have a lot to add to all that has been written about this Psalm over t...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 23:1-6Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 18:This is clearly a Messianic Psalm that points ahead to Jesus. There is so much we can learn about the character of God from this Psalm, but what...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 18:1-50Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 11:Here we see the omniscience of God. He alone knows the hearts of man and can judge rightly. He alone can perceive evil and righteousness. And b...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 11:1-7Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 9:The main attribute of God that stands out to me in this passage is the fact that He is eternal. He is not bound by space or time. We need to keep...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 9:1-20Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 8:Mary and I really enjoy using our telescope to view the immenseness of God's creation. But even with our telescope we can only see a small fracti...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 8:1-9Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 6:I want to spend a little more time today to dig into the idea of God's "steadfast love" (v. 4). That phrase is the translation of a single Hebrew ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 6:1-10Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 5 from Friday:The first thing that stands out here is the righteousness of God. He is completely holy and righteous and therefore He cannot allow e...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 5:1-12Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 3:I was really encouraged that God is a God who delights in blessing those who are willing to cry out to Him. He sustains, saves and protects His p...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 3:1-8Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 2:There are two attributes of God that stood out to me in this passage:His complete sovereignty. Earthly leaders (and us, too) may make their own pl...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 2:1-12A.W. Tozer opens his book The Knowledge of the Holy, with these words:What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.I fully agree. And the only place we can develop a true concept of what God is really like is the Bible. So for the next several weeks, we're going to be reading through a selection of Psalms with one purpose - to ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Revelation 22:1-21If you've been with us since the first of the year, congratulations on completing the redemptive-historical reading plan! I pray that you have been blessed by seeing that from beginning to end the Bible is the story of God loving and redeeming His people through faith in His Son, Jesus.In the first part of the chapter, John finishes his description of the New Jer...  Read More