by David Keesling | Apr 4, 2025 | Daily Devotional
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 both...
by David Keesling | Apr 3, 2025 | Daily Devotional
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. There, her...
by David Keesling | Apr 2, 2025 | Daily Devotional
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 itinerary to visit...
by David Keesling | Apr 1, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Psalm 42:2 “When can I go and meet with God?” (NIV). Observation: This psalm expresses the passionate cry of David’s heart to once again be in the presence of God. David was exiled from the house of Saul, hiding in a very small country with 3,000 soldiers in pursuit....
by David Keesling | Mar 31, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Jeremiah 27:6–11 “And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant … It will be that the nation or the kingdom which will not … put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the...
by David Keesling | Mar 30, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Psalm 67:6–7 “The earth has yielded its produce; God, our God blesses us. God blesses us, that all the ends of the earth may fear Him.” Observation: This psalm of thanksgiving invokes God’s continued blessings upon Israel, that all the nations of the earth might see...
