by David Keesling | Sep 8, 2025 | Daily Devotional
John 2:15 “After making a whip out of cords, He drove everyone out of the temple complex, with their sheep and oxen.” Observation: This is the first instance of Jesus clearing the temple complex, but this one is interesting because it occurred at the beginning of...
by David Keesling | Sep 7, 2025 | Daily Devotional
1 Samuel 16:7 “Do not look at his appearance or his stature, because I have rejected him.” Observation: Samuel was grieving over the Lord’s rejection of Saul as Israel’s king (16:1), but the Lord had said, in essence, “Buck up! Get over it!” “Go to Jesse of Bethlehem...
by David Keesling | Sep 6, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Psalm 116:7, 12 “Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. How can I repay the Lord for all His goodness to me?” Observation: The whole of Psalm 116 celebrates the Lord’s deliverance from death. Verse 3 remembers that, “The cords of death...
by David Keesling | Sep 5, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Daniel 1:2 “And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God.” Observation: Daniel’s beginning sets the stage for some troubling personal reflection. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had besieged...
by David Keesling | Sep 4, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Lamentations 5:3 “We have become orphans without a father.…” Observation: The Jews are in Babylonian captivity, having lost everything. Their inheritance (v. 2) had been “turned over to strangers,” their houses had been forfeited to aliens. Everything they needed...
by David Keesling | Sep 3, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Ezekiel 20:1 “Now it came about in the seventh year, on the fifth month on the tenth of the month, some of the elders came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.” Observation: Ezekiel was Israel’s prophet-in-exile. He had been captured by Nebuchadnezzar’s army and...
