Today's Bible Reading: PSALM 39-41, 53, 55, 58 Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. We get burdened about so many things. Finances, friends, family, and our future can all weight heavy upon us. They all can press down upon us. They can demand our attention and dictate our actions. They occupy our thoughts and overwhelm our emotions. We can easily become paralyzed and perplexed as we seek to reso

Today's Bible Reading: PSALM 35-38 Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Delight dictates desires. What you delight in will determine your direction. It will set your course. It will specify your pursuits. It will prescribe your path. What you find delight in will even control what you seek and strive for. It will guide your wants and needs. It will govern what you ask for. Here the Psalmist prescribes a pursuit that will

Today's Bible Reading: PSALM 27-32 Psalm 30:5 For His anger is but for a moment, and His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. There are times in life when we incur the Lord’s fatherly anger. He frowns upon his erring children. His hand is heavy upon them. His anger is aroused and His wrath is poured out. They become saints suffering at the hand of their sovereign. But the exhortation of the Psalm is that “His anger is

Today's Bible Reading: PSALM 22-26 Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me A valley provides lush vegetation and cool streams for grazing sheep. But danger is also lurking in the cliffs and crevasses of the mountains that surround them. Predators are watching and waiting for an opportune time to pounce upon the unsuspecting sheep. The sheep are defenseless a

Today's Bible Reading : PSALM 12-17, 19-21 Psalm 16:11 You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. The pleasures of this world lure us. They tantalize us and they draw us. We want to experience the ecstasy they afford. We want to bath in their bliss. We desire to be caught up in their feeling of euphoria. We hope for the happiness that worldly pleasures will bring. Here David directs us

Today's Bible Reading: 1 KINGS 2:1-12, 2 SAMUEL 23:1-7, 1 CHRONICLES 29:26-30, PSALM 4-6; 8-9;11 Psalm 4:7 You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound . Joy can be elusive. It is a stranger to many of us. Distress, depression, disillusionment and difficulty can distance us from joy. We can seek it and not find it. We can strive for it and never attain it. It evades us. It escapes our grasp. It is unreachable. But David found it and sha

Today's Bible Reading: 1 CHRONICLES 29:1-22, 1 KINGS 1:1-53 1 Chronicles 29:16 O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build You a house for your Holy name is form Your hand, and is all Your own. The Lord possesses all things and provides all things. These are two clear affirmations that David makes in our text. He knew that everything is the Lord’s and from the Lord. As he was accumulating supplies to build the temple, this profound truth overtook hi

Today's Bible Reading: 1 CHRONICLES 26:1-28:21 1 Chronicles 28:9 “ And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. ” We are all given tasks and assignments throughout life. At school we have homework. At home we have chores. At work we have ta

Today's Bible Reading: 1 CHRONICLES 23:1-25:31 1 Chronicles 25:6 They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king. Singing has always been a vital part of the believer’s worship experience. It was the Lord who arranged for singing in the service. He assigned gifted skilled musicians to lead His people to p

Today's Bible Reading: 2 SAMUEL 24:1-25, 1 CHRONICLES 21:1-22:19 2 Samuel 24:24 But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. The Christian life comes at a cost. There is no such thing as costless Christianity. Salvation is free. Christ’s sacrifice was sufficient to secure our salvation. Nothing

Today's Bible Reading: 2 SAMUEL 22:1-51, PSALM 18 2 Samuel 22:30 For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. Ps 18:29 We have many things that overwhelm us. There are many “troops” that hinder our progress and many “walls” that halt our advance. We become stalled. We are at a standstill. We want to move forward. We want to get past these walls. We have tried and failed. We have fought and lost. We want to, but can’t. David encountered diff

As the winter snows melt and water the flowers in the meadows and valleys below, may you experience the fresh renewal that these daily...