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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.
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Latest Devotional
Beyond the Blue
Numbers 4:4, 7, 9, 11
“This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: the most holy things. … And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue. … And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light. … And over the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue.”It’s late afternoon here in central North Carolina and there isn’t a single cloud in the sky on this pristine day. I recall a comment my son once made on a day just like this one: “Daddy, imagine if God made the sky green instead of blue?!” We imagined it together and quickly realized how bland a day like this would look if the grass and trees and shrubs and sky and waterways were all the same color. I don’t know the scientific explanation for why I’m enthralled by the blue topaz ring on my wife’s finger or bythe teal Caribbean Ocean or by our favorite swimming hole in the NC mountains with its bluish boulders, but I know for a fact that God’s creation of blue was a remarkable thing and that my very best days under the sun are draped in it.
Five times in Numbers 4, God commands the Kohathites to cover the holiest tabernacle instruments in a cloth of blue when transporting them from place to place, and I can’t help but see in this command an analogy for the way God built the world. The sky is like a shroud covering highest heaven, concealing the Face of God as it were, and I long to gaze through it—to see an outline of Zion’s hills awaiting me at the world’s end! This turquoise cloak of sky is a beautiful veil, but it’s a veil nonetheless: a portable curtain that will one day be drawn by Providence’s hand to uncover the most spectacular vision of all. A vision that will make even the clearest autumn day seem like a black funeral shroud in contrast.
Pray this resolution with me in your own words, friend: “Lord, may my life today be like a cloudless blue sky in this gray, hopeless world. May my words and deeds be beautiful in Your eyes, drawing others near, guarding what is holy and giving those who cross my path a little glimpse of heavenly wonder.”
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A Most Sacred Order
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Awaiting the Dawn
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Tribal Standards
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Count Me In
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Hallelujah!
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Servant Status
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Enduring Love
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Don’t Light the Fuse!
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The Last Word
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Don’t Wait . . . Sing Now!
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God Knows Best
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Gunning for Bear
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Parental Endowment
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Steadfast, Immovable
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Paying Penance?
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Stone-Blind
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Going the Extra Mile
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A Priceless Pearl
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Revenge Denied
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Trying Your Patience
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By Faith, Not by Sight
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Begging Your Pardon
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Lift That Weight!
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Keep Swinging
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The Heavens Declare
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Let’s Go Fishing!
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Parking Space #23
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Measureless Grace
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No Man Left Behind
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Completing the Puzzle
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Skeletons in the Closet
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Deposits and Investments
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Piercing the Darkness
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You’re on Candid Camera!
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Dry Bones
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Without Love
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Father Knows Best
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Putting on the Dog
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The Dreaded Word: Practice!
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Walking in the Spirit
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Down Memory Lane
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The Stops of a Good Man
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Truly Good News
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The Good Shepherd
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People of the Word
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Imitating Christ
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The One Left Standing
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Invisibly Involved
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“Not Guilty!”
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But You, O Lord . . .
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God Uses Broken Things
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Then Comes the Good Part!
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Go to God
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Light Up the Runway!
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Faith is . . .
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I Believe I Will
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Under Evaluation
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Minority Rule
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Albert B. Simpson’s hymn, ‘Yesterday, Today, Forever’)
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The Melody of Raindrops
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Inverse Psychology
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Right Between the Eyes
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Bon Appetit
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Our Word
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Jane C. Bonar’s hymn, ‘Fade, Fade, Each Earthly Joy’)
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Dirt in the Divine
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Open Your Eyes!
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Gray Hair and Long Branches
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A Matter of Trust
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A Begrudging Virtue
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of William T. Sleeper’s hymn, ‘Jesus, I Come’)
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The Least of These
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Remedial Purity
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Mad Goat Disease
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Joyful Sorrow…And Other Paradoxes
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Seeing Double
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of John M. Neale’s hymn ‘Art Thou Weary?’)
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Cleaning House
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The Buck Stops With You
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The Seminal Covenant
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Word from our Land-LORD
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Stop the Spread
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Sabbath Psalm (From Lidie Edmunds hymn, ‘My Faith Has Found a Resting Place’)
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A Less-Than-Perfect Conception
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Altars and Alterations
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The City Center
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Hold Your Peace
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Fight the Tide
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from Dora Greenwell’s hymn, ‘My Savior’)
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Hearts Ablaze
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The Glory in the Commandment
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New Dawn
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The Big Six
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The Hermeneutic of Hindsight
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Sabbath Psalm (A revision of Horatius Bonar’s hymn ‘Here, O My Lord, I See You Face to Face’)
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Earth-Shattering Faith
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Over-the-Top Confession
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Top-Top Shelf
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Pleading the Fifth