by David Keesling | Dec 29, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Job 38:22–23 “Have you seen the storehouses of the hail, which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of war and battle?” Observation: Reading the book of Job has always required fortitude; experience tells me I will have to wade through endless...
by David Keesling | Dec 28, 2024 | Daily Devotional
1 Corinthians 9:1 “Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?” Observation: Paul has just finished saying in 1 Corinthians 8:13: “Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again,...
by David Keesling | Dec 27, 2024 | Daily Devotional
1 Corinthians 7:35 “This I say for your own benefit; not to put a restraint on you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.” Observation: Paul was sharing what he understood God’s desire to be regarding marriage. He...
by David Keesling | Dec 26, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Job 34:10 “Far be it from God to do wickedness, and from the Almighty to do wrong.” Observation: This chapter finds Elihu on a roll, convinced he has the root of Job’s trouble all figured out: it’s Job! Though Elihu’s theories will require some adjustment down the...
by David Keesling | Dec 25, 2024 | Daily Devotional
1 Corinthians 1:9; 2:14 “God is faithful. … But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God.” Observation: Paul was a spiritual father to the Corinthians, having been first to preach the Gospel there on an earlier trip. Corinth was a remarkably...