by David Keesling | Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Miracles still happen… As a subscriber to my daily devotional emails, you know I have been writing these for a number of years now. You may also be aware that the first 365 of them have been published into a daily devotional keepsake book. The book was self-published,...
by David Keesling | Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
1 Samuel 11:2 “I will make a treaty with you only on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you” (NIV). Observation: Ammonites led by Nahash besieged Israelites living in the area of Jabesh-Gilead. Preparing to surrender, the men of...
by David Keesling | Feb 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ruth 3:4 “He will tell you what to do” (NIV). Observation: Ruth told Naomi, her widowed mother-in-law, that Boaz had been extraordinarily kind to them. Ruth gleaned Boaz’s fields after harvesters had done their work, and Boaz had gone out of his way to be...
by David Keesling | Feb 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ruth 1:5: “Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband” (NIV). Observation: Naomi and Ruth’s story is a portrayal of loss, commitment, restoration, and divine provision. Naomi had gone with her family to live in Moab due to Bethlehem’s famine....
by David Keesling | Feb 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
2 Corinthians 2:1 “I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you” (NIV). Observation: Much of 2 Corinthians 1 and the beginning of the second chapter seem to be travelogue. Paul wrote in 1:15 about having tried to arrange his...
