Devotionals (Page 9)

Devotionals (Page 9)

help write history

Remember Daniel? —the young teen carried off to captivity in Babylon? —who purposed not to defile himself by all the godlessness around him? —interpreter of dreams? —the lions’ den guy? Remember him? Well, in chapter 9 of his book he’s eighty-something years old, wearing sackcloth, covered with ashes, fasting, praying, and confessing sins. And not just any…

Screech! Bang! Crunch!

What went wrong? Each driver wanted that spot in the road. At the same time. Neither would yield. And now, one lucky driver is receiving a citation! Failure to Yield Right-of-Way. Ouch—this is going to get expensive! I find life is a lot like driving — often my will collides with another’s because neither of us will yield… and things get messy in a hurry.…

hideously beautiful

“May it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” (Galatians 6:14) In the spirit of lifting high the cross of Christ our Savior, I thought you would appreciate this story written by Michael W. Riggs. In 1967, while taking a class in photography at the…

and there He tested them…

A recurring nightmare I had while in school was that I would show up for class one day and in sudden horror and disbelief realize, “Oh, no!!! Test today?!?” Have you ever met anyone who looks forward to exams? You’d probably raise an eyebrow about such a person. These days we test everything, it seems: scholastics, equipment, strength, satisfaction,…

incline our hearts

Are you familiar with the term “heart incident”? It’s ticker trouble. And one in two American men never gets up from his first heart incident. Not good odds. Lately I’ve been pondering heart incidents of another sort. God has a lot to say about our spiritual tickers. What an eye-opener! (preferred figure over “heart-stopper”) I hope to…