Walk in Wisdom
To receive these lessons by email, fill out THIS FORM and select "Daily Devotional" from the options.
These daily devotionals are written to help you remain rooted and grounded in God's Word each day. We have one devotional for each weekday, and one for the weekend.
-
Latest Devotional
Faith—An Oasis
Numbers 24:2b-3a & 5-7
And the Spirit of God came upon him, and he took up his discourse and said, … “How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel! Like palm groves that stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.”When the Author of language waxes lyrical like this, it behooves us to not reply in kind as best we can, even if our greatest imitative parallels are like infantile scribbles in comparison, even if the sum of our words are the equivalent of a child taking a magic marker to the Mona Lisa. Nevertheless, The Lord Himself commanded us to come to Him as a child, and perhaps one way to accomplish that is by approaching the Bible as a coloring book, seeing the masterful outlines drawn by our Savior’s hand, and coloring them in through our insignificant but cherished lives of faith.
“Like palm groves that stretch afar!” writes our LORD. Rest in the shade of these metaphorical branches, friend. “Like gardens beside a river!” Eat the fruit of these lyrical looms! Do what my son does whenever we get to our favorite boulder on Laurel Creek and jump in! Immerse yourself not just in the meaning of redemption, but in its rhythms!
I doubt you woke up this morning and smelled the sweet aloe that permeates your faith. Maybe you saw the pile of unpaid bills on your counter or you heard the fluish cough of your spouse or you woke up to missed emails from frustrated co-workers. Maybe the mundane mess of your daily routine has that filmy hue of stagnation to it, like a pond in need of a heavy rain, and you feel uninspired. But did you consider that when God looks down on your obedience through the luminous veil of Christs atonement, your life is gushing and bubbling over like a pure mountain stream?!
It strikes me that habitual sin will not only keep many in this commonwealth from entering the oasis of heavenly rest, but also from being the oasis of heavenly rest in a wilderness world. May the LORD look upon our lives of faith today and speak this oracle over them. May the marks we make on the parchment of time and space not sully the scroll in God’s eyes but beautify it.
-
Latest Devotional
Faith—An Oasis
Numbers 24:2b-3a & 5-7
And the Spirit of God came upon him, and he took up his discourse and said, … “How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel! Like palm groves that stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.”When the Author of language waxes lyrical like this, it behooves us to not reply in kind as best we can, even if our greatest imitative parallels are like infantile scribbles in comparison, even if the sum of our words are the equivalent of a child taking a magic marker to the Mona Lisa. Nevertheless, The Lord Himself commanded us to come to Him as a child, and perhaps one way to accomplish that is by approaching the Bible as a coloring book, seeing the masterful outlines drawn by our Savior’s hand, and coloring them in through our insignificant but cherished lives of faith.
“Like palm groves that stretch afar!” writes our LORD. Rest in the shade of these metaphorical branches, friend. “Like gardens beside a river!” Eat the fruit of these lyrical looms! Do what my son does whenever we get to our favorite boulder on Laurel Creek and jump in! Immerse yourself not just in the meaning of redemption, but in its rhythms!
I doubt you woke up this morning and smelled the sweet aloe that permeates your faith. Maybe you saw the pile of unpaid bills on your counter or you heard the fluish cough of your spouse or you woke up to missed emails from frustrated co-workers. Maybe the mundane mess of your daily routine has that filmy hue of stagnation to it, like a pond in need of a heavy rain, and you feel uninspired. But did you consider that when God looks down on your obedience through the luminous veil of Christs atonement, your life is gushing and bubbling over like a pure mountain stream?!
It strikes me that habitual sin will not only keep many in this commonwealth from entering the oasis of heavenly rest, but also from being the oasis of heavenly rest in a wilderness world. May the LORD look upon our lives of faith today and speak this oracle over them. May the marks we make on the parchment of time and space not sully the scroll in God’s eyes but beautify it.
-
Balaam’s Second Oracle
-
Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Henry F. Lyte’s hymn ‘Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken’)
-
Balaam’s First Oracle
-
A Language Barrier pt. 2
-
A Language Barrier pt. 1
-
No Solicitors!
-
Out of the Shadows
-
Sabbath Psalm (Revised from Palmer Hartsough’s hymn ‘I Am Resolved’)
-
The Way of Kings
-
Lost Books
-
The Truth Bites
-
The Hand-Off
-
Rebels All
-
Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Mary D. James’ hymn ‘All for Jesus’)
-
Come to the Waters
-
Eulogies for the Living
-
Sin is Oh So Draining
-
In Christ Alone
-
Guardians of the Gift
-
Sabbath Psalm (From E. W. Blandy’s hymn, ‘Take the World but Give Me Jesus’)
-
A Sappy Symbol
-
Rhetorical Righteousness
-
A Powerful Posture
-
Making Memories
-
Tribes and Tongues, pt. 2
-
Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Philip P. Bliss’s hymn, ‘Let the Lower Lights be Burning’)
-
Tribes and Tongues, pt. 1
-
Stop the Rot!
-
Jesus Love the Little Children
-
Beating Hearts
-
One-Sided
-
Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Joseph Scriven’s hymn, ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’)
-
The Beginning of Wisdom
-
The Grasshopper Principle
-
Do You See What I See?
-
Time Out
-
A Reconciling Rebuke
-
Sabbath Psalm (From Fanny Crosby’s beloved hymn, ‘Near the Cross’)
-
Unrighteous Rhetoric
-
A Story Shared
-
Moses’ Complaint pt. 2
-
Moses’ Complaint pt. 1
-
Famished
-
Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from George Matheson’s hymn ‘O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go’)
-
Burning
-
High Notes and Low Notes
-
Silver Chords
-
The Waiting Room
-
The One and the Many
-
Sabbath Psalm (A revision of John W. Peterson’s hymn ‘A Student’s Prayer’)
-
Transitions
-
The Gold Standard
-
Between the Angels
-
An Acceptable Approach
-
Waxing Lyrical
-
Sabbath Psalm (Revision of John W. Peterson’s hymn, ‘Just One Step at a Time’)
-
Locks of Love
-
A Nazirite New Year
-
Love is Jealous, Love is Kind
-
Get Your Hard Hat Ready
-
Blue Collar Cloth
-
Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Fanny Crosby’s hymn ‘All the Way My Savior Leads Me’)
-
Beyond the Blue
-
A Most Sacred Order
-
Awaiting the Dawn
-
Tribal Standards
-
Count Me In
-
Hallelujah!
-
Servant Status
-
Enduring Love
-
Don’t Light the Fuse!
-
The Last Word
-
Don’t Wait . . . Sing Now!
-
God Knows Best
-
Gunning for Bear
-
Parental Endowment
-
Steadfast, Immovable
-
Paying Penance?
-
Stone-Blind
-
Going the Extra Mile
-
A Priceless Pearl
-
Revenge Denied
-
Trying Your Patience
-
By Faith, Not by Sight
-
Begging Your Pardon
-
Lift That Weight!
-
Keep Swinging
-
The Heavens Declare
-
Let’s Go Fishing!
-
Parking Space #23
-
Measureless Grace
-
No Man Left Behind
-
Completing the Puzzle
-
Skeletons in the Closet
-
Deposits and Investments
-
Piercing the Darkness
-
You’re on Candid Camera!
-
Dry Bones
-
Without Love