Tagged: Daily Reading

1 John 5:4-5 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (WEB) In Revelation chapter 2-3, Jesus addresses seven churches. With each church, there is a promise for all who overcome. In times past, I have been intimidated by these promises because I have felt that they were somewhat conditional in nature… ‘If’ I overcome, I will get a new name… ‘If’ I overcome, I will get a white stone,...

2 John 1:3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. (WEB) Grace, mercy, peace, truth and love. These are five amazing benefits of being joined with both the Father and the Son. Each one of these heavenly attributes are part of your birthright. You don’t have to earn them or deserve them. They belong to you because you belong to Jesus. If we struggle with the concept of inheritance, we may struggle to receive all that God wants to give...

Jude 1:20-21 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. (WEB) What does it mean to ‘keep ourselves in the love of God’? In 1 John 4:16, we read that ‘everyone who lives in love, lives in God and God in him’. In John 15:9, Jesus says this to His disciples… Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. (WEB) The call of the...

Revelation 14:1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. (WEB) I am not a person who feels remotely qualified to explain the Book of Revelation. Much of it is a mystery to me and a book that I will leave to more equipped brothers and sisters in the faith to explain. However, today’s Bible reading caught my eye for a particular reason. I won’t try to unpack the meaning of the one hundred forty-four thousand...

Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones. (WEB) Psalm 127 starts off with the well known verse that says that unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless it is the Lord who watches over a city, the guards are wasting their time. (My paraphrase 🙂 The first verse of this psalm speaks of the vanity of human effort. Unless it is the Lord who is doing the building and the watching, our efforts are...