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.
Matthew 9:10-13 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Read the context If you wrote the...
Exodus 3:11-15 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” ... “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” Read the context I imagine Moses was frightened to see a burning bush and to stand in God's presence. God...
Psalm 119:71–72 It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. The law from your mouth is more precious to me — than thousands of pieces of silver and gold. Read the context Almost everything has a price tag. With the right amount of money, you can have whatever you want. You can't earn your way into them either. They're freely given. Even in his trouble, God's Word was worth more than anything money could touch to the writer of this Psalm. Trouble strips back what is...