May 11 “Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and liath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.” (Jer. 48:11) Jeremiah here takes an illustration from the art of…
May 10 “…we are not ignorant of his devices.” (2 Cor. 2:11) It is important to know the devices of our enemy, the Devil. Otherwise he is likely to take advantage of us. We should know that he is a liar, and has been from the beginning. In fact, he is the father of lies…
May 9 “…the maid that is of the land of Israel.” (2 Ki. 5:4) A person doesn’t have to be known by name in order to accomplish great exploits for God. In fact, some of the people in the Bible who won immortal fame are not identified by their names. There were the three men…
May 8 “And I will give thee the treasures of darkness.” (Isa. 45:3) When God made this promise to Cyrus, He was speaking of material treasures from lands of darkness that Cyrus would conquer. But we are not doing violence to the verse when we take it and apply it in a spiritual sense. There…
May 7 “He careth for you.” (1 Pet. 5:7) The Bible is fairly full of tokens of God’s marvelous care for His people. During Israel’s forty-year trek through the wilderness, they ate food from heaven (Ex. 16:4), had an unfailing supply of water (1 Cor. 10:4), and were equipped with shoes that never wore out…
May 6 “How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel.” (1 Sam. 16:1) There comes a time in life when we must stop mourning over the past and get on with the work of the present. God had rejected Saul from being king. The action was final,…
May 5 “Esau…for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.” (Heb. 12:16) It is often possible to barter life’s best values for a momentary gratification of physical appetite. That is what Esau did. He had come in from the field tired and hungry. At that moment Jacob was cooking a pot of red bean soup.…
May 4 “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death.” (Prov. 14:12) Twice in the book of Proverbs (14:12 and 16:25) we learn that man’s judgment as to the right way is not reliable. What seems right to him ends in disaster and death.…
May 3 “He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.”(Gal. 6:8) No one can sin and get away with it. The results of sin are not only inescapable, they are extremely bitter. Sin may look like a harmless pussy but it eventually devours like a pitiless lion. The supposed glamor of…
May 2 “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.” (Matt. 4:23) A recurring problem among Christians is maintaining the proper balance between evangelism and social involvement. Evangelicals are often criticized for…