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
Dying Request
Numbers 27:15-18
Moses spoke to the LORD, saying, “Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.” So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.”Do you remember in Matthew 9:36 where Jesus had compassion on the crowds and saw them as sheep without a shepherd? That’s the fundamental distinction between shepherds and wolves. A wolf looks out at hapless masses and sneers, seeing how easily he can exploit them, how he can devour them. To a wolf, people are just notifications on a computer screen. Just a growing list of subscribers that he always needs more of. Not to the shepherd. The shepherd sees lost people and desires to bring them home. He doesn’t just pity them for a moment and walk away, but he reaches down to lift them up. One little sheep that goes missing, one soul that’s gotten lost, one infant child that’s been trampled on by wicked men is enough for a shepherd to leave the thriving ministry or the spotlight or a comfortable life in the Midianite hills and begin an all-out search and rescue mission.
Moses’ storied life is nearing its end, and like all godly, exceptional shepherds of any generation he can’t be replaced. But his mission must be advanced. And I’m deeply stirred in my spirit as I watch him take this slow ascent around the final bend of his life and see him effectively turn back around to shed a tear for all the lost sheep he’s leaving behind. A charlatan would laugh and say, “Good riddance!” A mercenary would think only of the coming payout and not even blink an eye. A tyrant would clamor for one more hour on the throne. But not a shepherd. Not a man in the image of His Lord and Savior! Not Moses.
Friend, may Moses’ ambition fuel our own ministries today as we, too, walk in the footsteps of our Good Shepherd Who showed us how to lay down our lives for others.
-
Latest Devotional
Dying Request
Numbers 27:15-18
Moses spoke to the LORD, saying, “Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.” So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.”Do you remember in Matthew 9:36 where Jesus had compassion on the crowds and saw them as sheep without a shepherd? That’s the fundamental distinction between shepherds and wolves. A wolf looks out at hapless masses and sneers, seeing how easily he can exploit them, how he can devour them. To a wolf, people are just notifications on a computer screen. Just a growing list of subscribers that he always needs more of. Not to the shepherd. The shepherd sees lost people and desires to bring them home. He doesn’t just pity them for a moment and walk away, but he reaches down to lift them up. One little sheep that goes missing, one soul that’s gotten lost, one infant child that’s been trampled on by wicked men is enough for a shepherd to leave the thriving ministry or the spotlight or a comfortable life in the Midianite hills and begin an all-out search and rescue mission.
Moses’ storied life is nearing its end, and like all godly, exceptional shepherds of any generation he can’t be replaced. But his mission must be advanced. And I’m deeply stirred in my spirit as I watch him take this slow ascent around the final bend of his life and see him effectively turn back around to shed a tear for all the lost sheep he’s leaving behind. A charlatan would laugh and say, “Good riddance!” A mercenary would think only of the coming payout and not even blink an eye. A tyrant would clamor for one more hour on the throne. But not a shepherd. Not a man in the image of His Lord and Savior! Not Moses.
Friend, may Moses’ ambition fuel our own ministries today as we, too, walk in the footsteps of our Good Shepherd Who showed us how to lay down our lives for others.
-
Hand in Hand
-
When God Speaks for You
-
A New Genesis
-
Sabbath Psalm (Revised from John Peterson’ hymn ‘A Flag to Follow’)
-
In Broad Daylight
-
No Place Like Home
-
Balaam’s Final Oracle
-
Faith—An Oasis
-
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