Daily Devotion: The Joyful Transformation by John MacDuff

Bible Reading: John 17:19-26 24 KJV

Key Verse:  "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world."
- John 17:24 KJV

This is not the petition of a suppliant — but the claim of a conqueror!  Christ's people are a sorrowing people! Chastisement is their badge; "great tribulation" is their appointed discipline. When they enter the gates of glory, Christ is represented as wiping away tears from their eyes. But, weeping ones, be comforted! Your Lord's special mission to earth — the great errand He came from Heaven to fulfill, was "to bind up the brokenhearted." Your trials are meted out by a tender hand! He knows you too well — He loves you too well — to make this world tearless and sorrowless!

Daily Devotion: What the Bible Says About the World by J.E. Smith

Bible Reading: Colossians 3:1-8 KJV

Key Verse:  "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."
- Colossians 3:2 KJV

The Bible speaks often about the world, but it uses the word in different ways. Sometimes it refers to the physical earth that God created, sometimes to the people who live in it, and often to the sinful system opposed to God. As followers of Christ, we are called to understand these distinctions and walk wisely.

Daily Devotion: Wrath by James Meikle

Bible Reading: Revelation 6:10-17 KJV

Key Verse:  "For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"
- Revelation 6:17 KJV

I have hitherto had faint views of divine wrath, though I have indeed had frightful apprehensions of fire; gloomy ideas of the bottomless pit, and shocking thoughts of the state of the damned. But, there is one expression of our Savior's, which gives me a clearer view of divine vengeance, than all the anguish of the damned can do. Observe the God-man in his spotless innocence—suffering in our stead, carrying our sorrows, and bearing our grief. 

Daily Devotion: Dead to Sin by Wil Pounds

Bible Reading: Romans 6:7-14 KJV

Key Verse:  "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord."
- Romans 6:11 KJV

The apostle Paul wrote of Christ, “For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 6:10-11). The believer’s “old man” or “old self” is what he was spiritually before he believed on Christ when he was still under sin, powerless, depraved, ungodly and even an enemy of God.

Daily Devotion: Go And Sin No More by Octavius Winslow

Bible Reading: John 8:4-11 KJV

Key Verse:  "She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more."
- John 8:11 KJV

See how Christ manifests His abhorrence of the sin, while He throws His shield of mercy around the sinner. The Lord does not justify the sinner's transgression, though He justifies the sinner's person. In the great matter of salvation, justification and sanctification, pardon and holiness, are essentially and inseparably united. When the Lord Jesus dismisses a sinner with a sense of acquittal in his conscience, it is ever accompanied with that most affecting of all exhortations, "Sin no more."

Daily Devotion: Be Content by Charles Spurgeon

Bible Reading: Philippians 4:9-16 KJV

Key Verse:  "Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content."
- Philippians 4:11 KJV

These words show us that contentment is not a natural propensity of man. "Ill weeds grow quickly." Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man—as weeds are to the soil. We need not sow thistles and weeds; they come up naturally enough, because they are indigenous to earth. Just so, we need not teach men to complain; they complain fast enough without any education.

Daily Devotion: The Eyes Of The Blind Shall Be Opened by J.C. Philpot

Bible Reading: Isaiah 35:1-8 KJV

Key Verse:  "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped."
- Isaiah 35:5 KJV

That these miracles are effected by the power of the gospel is plain from the words that immediately precede, "Behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you" (Isa. 35:4). And how does God come and save but in the gospel, and by making it his own power unto salvation?