PSALM 19:12–13 – Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults. Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression. THEME OF THE DAY. KNOWING OUR GREATEST SPIRITUAL FOE. In today’s scripture, David offers an important insight to live the Christian life. It…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Psalms
PSALM 16:8-11 – I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of…
PSALM 27:8 – You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I seek.” THEME OF THE DAY. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AND PRAYER. Not a single Christian would deny the place of prayer in the Christian life. And not a single Christian would deny the challenge of maintaining a Biblically-consistent prayer life. So many things in…
PSALM 94:18-19 – When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. THEME OF THE DAY. THINGS AREN’T AS WE THINK. I love the illustration King Solomon made in Proverbs 22 and repeated in Proverbs 26. He writes, “The sluggard says, ‘There is a…
PSALM 119:67, 71 – Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep your word. 71 It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. THEME OF THE DAY. GOD’S SCHOOL OF DISCIPLESHIP. We are probably familiar with these words from the prophet Isaiah – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are…
PSALM 130 – Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,…