When the daily grind overwhelms, God promises to bring rest through his Word. This daily devotion & journal prompt is written to accompany your morning coffee or nighttime routine.
God's Word is Your Defense!
The Everyday Sabbath
When the daily grind overwhelms, God promises to bring rest through his Word. This daily devotion & journal prompt is written to accompany your morning coffee or nighttime routine.
Deut. 4:19–20 When you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are. Read the context Powerful things have always been tempting objects of worship. Long ago... nature... Today?...
Matt. 13:28–31 “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’” Read the context My lawn mowing schedule has recently been thrown off. The grass is long enough now that it's started to...
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. Read the context Driving somewhere new, you find yourself going 20 MPH over the limit. "I didn't know I had to slow down." ... You're still getting a ticket... God makes himself more obvious than a speed limit sign — nature screams out "God exists." There's no such thing as not...