by David Keesling | Dec 30, 2024 | Daily Devotional
Job 40:4 “I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth.” Observation: Through all of Job 38 and 39, God had been affirming His unlimited majesty and power using fascinating examples from the natural realm and the animal world. Then He...
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...
