Devotional Message Solomon describes the active pursuit wisdom requires: “If you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart…

Devotional Message After exploring life’s futilities and searching for meaning under the sun, Solomon arrives at startling simplicity: “Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of…

Devotional Message Jesus quotes Isaiah to reveal His character: “A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.” A bruised reed is damaged,…

Devotional Message Hosea issues invitation to those who’ve wandered: “Come, let us return to the Lord.” Return implies you’ve been somewhere else, that distance has opened between you and God,…

Devotional Message David discovers that God wants something entirely different from religious performance: “You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in…

Devotional Message God promises something radically different from external rules carved on stone tablets: “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.” This new…

Devotional Message Jesus read these words in the synagogue and declared “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing”—claiming the anointing Isaiah prophesied centuries earlier. “The Spirit of the Sovereign…

Devotional Message Paul declares a truth that dismantles every illusion of isolated existence: “None of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone.” You don’t…

Devotional Message Jesus tells this parable to answer “Who is my neighbor?” and His answer dismantles every boundary you use to limit compassion. “But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came…

Devotional Message Jesus reveals one of the most radical truths in Scripture: He is present in those who are suffering, waiting to be encountered in the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked,…