Daily Devotions by Steve Holm (Page 145)
Daily Devotions: June 19, 2019
June 19, 2019 For full passage click: Psalm 22:24-29 …“The poor shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord. May your hearts live forever!” vs. 26 When all was said and done, the psalmist had a deep and profound hope for the future. In spite of all evidence to the contrary, despite his feelings of despair and alienation, he believed that the Lord would satisfy the deepest longings of all hurting people. Even the poor,…
Daily Devotions: June 18, 2019
June 18, 2019 For full passage click: Psalm 22:19-23 …“I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:” vs. 22 Many of us are reluctant to do much faith sharing with our friends, and we wouldn’t think of doing it with strangers. It could be our introverted personalities, or maybe we’ve been turned off by encounters with rabid evangelicals of one stripe or another. Whatever the reason, we…
Daily Devotions: June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019 For full passage click: Isaiah 65:1-9 …“I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask, to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation that did not call on my name.” vs. 1 Long after the nobility of Judah had been hauled off into exile, the prophet recounts their complete rejection of the Lord. They had completely turned their backs on…
Daily Devotions: June 16, 2019
June 16, 2019 John 16:15 …“All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” vs. 15 According to John’s gospel, Jesus told his disciples that he and the Father were one and that after Jesus left the earth, the Father would send the Spirit of Truth to be with the disciples. There is no doctrine spelled out in his words, but, within the next couple…
Daily Devotions: June 15, 2019
June 15, 2019 For full passage click: John 16:12-14 …“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.” vs. 12 Some people believe that the Canon of Scripture is closed, that the books currently in the Testaments contain the totality of God’s Word for us. None can be taken out and none can be added. Others are not so sure. They hold that the notion of a closed Canon is a human invention and…
Daily Devotions: June 14, 2019
June 14, 2019 For full passage click: Romans 5:1-5 …“and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.” vs. 5 Paul is able to tell the Romans that people of faith can even boast in their sufferings, not because they are masochists, but because God’s love, the very presence of God, has been poured into their hearts. His insight has stood the test of…
Daily Devotions: June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019 For full passage click: Psalm 8:5-9 …“Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet…” vss. 5-6 The ancient Hebrews believed that, in spite of their universal insignificance, God had given humans dominion over all things that lived on the earth. We can certainly understand the logic of their reasoning—at…
Daily Devotions: June 12, 2019
June 12, 2019 For full passage click: Psalm 8:1-4 A Psalm of David …“When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?” vss. 3-4 If we’ve taken any time at all to reflect on our place in space and in time, we will likely resonate with what the psalmist has said. We live…
Daily Devotions: June 11, 2019
June 11, 2019 For full passage click: Proverbs 8:22-31 …“then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.” vss. 30-31 According to this section of Proverbs, Wisdom was the Father’s partner in the creation of the universe and produced an earth that was finely tuned and carefully ordered. Obviously, the writer had deep respect for the intricacy and connectedness…
Daily Devotions: June 10, 2019
June 10, 2019 For full passage click: Proverbs 8:1-4 …“Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand;” vss. 1-2 It’s possible to accumulate massive amounts of knowledge in the course of a lifetime and yet run a huge deficit when it comes to wisdom. Many of us have acquaintances who are a perfect match for that description. They can have multiple degrees but not…
Daily Devotions: June 9, 2019
June 9, 2019 For full passage click: John 14:15-19 …“In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.” vs. 19 The man, Jesus of Nazareth, did not have a long life. Hostile powers conspired to torture and kill him while he was, by our standards, a young man. But death could not contain him, and his followers soon reported his continuing presence. “He’s alive,” they proclaimed…
Daily Devotions: June 8, 2019
June 8, 2019 For full passage click: John 14:8-14 …“Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ”Show us the Father”’?” vs. 9 We don’t know what Philip was thinking when he asked Jesus to show the disciples the Father, but evidently it had not dawned on him that, in Jesus, they had been seeing…