The Christian’s Family Badge
“Discipline is one of the chief marks of our lawful and honorable birth … Joy within we may expect—‘joy unspeakable and full of glory,’ for that is the family portion. But joy from without, the joy of earth's sunshine, the joy of the world's ease and abundance, the joy of unsevered bonds and unweeping eyes, is not our lot in this vale of tears. Still, in the midst of the ever-wakeful storms through which we are passing to the Kingdom, there is peace—deep peace, too deep for any storm of earth to reach. In the world we have tribulation, but in Jesus we have peace. Let us hold it fast.”
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The Image of Christ
In today’s post, we share a devotional from Jeremy Walker’s A Word in Season: 50 Days of Hope for Hard Times. He writes, “In the midst of all the sufferings, sorrows, pains, problems, weaknesses, and weariness of this world and in this body, let God’s people look forward with eagerness to the day when—though we currently bear the image of the man of dust—we shall bear the image of the heavenly Man . . .”
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How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds
John Newton, the author of “Amazing Grace”, wrote over 300 hymns, including this beautiful, Christ-exalting one: “How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds in a believer’s ear. It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear.” Read the rest in today's post!
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The Incomprehensible God
To enlarge our thoughts of God’s majesty, we must look to Scripture to see what He says about Himself. If we will humbly set our hearts and minds to examine God’s self-revelation, we need not be discouraged by His incomprehensibility. In reality, incomprehensibility is one of the shining features of God’s splendor, the weight of His majesty. It is a truth that separates Him from all else.
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
—Romans 11:3
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12 Reasons to Go to Church on Rainy Sundays
Today’s devotional is taken from an article written in 1916 by Frances Havergal titled “Why I Go to Church on Rainy Sabbaths.” In it, she lists 12 reasons that she believes church attendance is not something to be taken lightly.
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Overcoming Spiritual Depression
“In a world where everything has gone so sadly astray, we should be standing out as people characterized by a fundamental joy and certainty in spite of conditions, in spite of adversity. Now that, I think you will agree, is the picture which is given of God's people everywhere in the Scriptures.“ What does Martyn Lloyd-Jones tell us is the foundation of this joy?
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Being Renewed
Retirement from business, with an independence and full honors, grows burdensome, though desired and laboured for through a long life. After a degree of success, wealth, and reputation, the soldier becomes weary of his triumphs, and longs for repose. But the man who is filled with the Holy Spirit, and cultivates the habits of contemplation and action excited by grace, will find the service of Jesus more and more delightful.
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Contented and Unsatisfied
In today’s devotional, Jeremiah Burroughs explains the rare jewel of Christian contentment. A grace-filled heart finds its satisfaction in knowing and loving God and is content with whatever God sees fit to give in this temporal life. A heart capable of knowing God can be satisfied with nothing less than God himself.
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Glorious in Holiness
In today’s devotional, Octavius Winslow explains that the deeper our views of God’s holiness grow, the deeper our love grows. We love the truth, because it is on the side of holiness; we love the saints, because they are the reflection of holiness; we love the discipline of our heavenly Father, because it makes us partakers of His holiness; how much more intense, then, our affection for God, as the holiness of His being, the purity of His character, unveils to our admiring eyes!
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Why So Fearful?
Today’s devotional is taken from Jeremy Walker’s book, A Word in Season: 50 Days of Hope for Hard Times. These brief yet solidly biblical daily readings could be an excellent addition to your quiet time or family worship. Today’s excerpt helps us look to the Savior in times of fear and doubt.
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7 Reasons God’s Commands Are Not Burdensome
The world and the devil would have us believe that God’s commands are tedious, harsh, severe, and heavy to bear. Scripture tells us they are easy, sweet, beneficial, and excellent. In today’s devotional, Thomas Watson gives us 7 statements to help us experience the truth that God’s commands are not burdensome.
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The Discipline of Joy
In today’s devotional J. I. Packer shows us how to make Christian joy a reality in our lives. Joy, both natural and spiritual, will periodically come upon us as a gust or glow of unsought exhilaration, for which we should be grateful every time. But we are not to think of joy as essentially a mood of euphoria for which we ask and then sit down to wait. Joy is a habit of the heart, induced and sustained as an abiding quality of one’s life through the discipline of rejoicing. Joy is not an accident of temperament or an unpredictable providence; joy is a matter of choice. In Philippians 4:4, Paul directs his readers to choose to rejoice because it is through rejoicing that joy becomes a personal reality.
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