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.
Going in with a plan.
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.
Luke 12:35–37 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. Read the context The kids lean over the edge of the couch anticipating...
Psalm 130:5–6 I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. Read the context When are you a clock-checker? At the end of the work day? When you're waiting for a delivery? Your whole life is connected to an eternal clock. This earth waits for the Lord's final deliverance — Jesus' return. While you wait, trust. Know the God who forgives. And never lose sight of the...
Acts 17:30–31 "In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.” Read the context All the proof was there — fingerprints, eye-witnesses, confessions. An open-and-shut case. The empty tomb proves to you that God has set his plan into place. He calls all people to look to the cross and...