January 12, 2025

Peace of God

“The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Exodus 33:14

How do people live without God or go through the grief of life without the presence of God’s peace? It’s a rhetorical question but one that a believer in the Lord finds difficult to answer. There is no true life, at least a life of peace, without the presence of the Lord to comfort, guide, and strengthen when the walls of this world crumble about us. Without the Lord there is restlessness that knows no satisfaction.

The genuine Christian life is one that intentionally invites the Lord’s presence into every aspect of our life. It is including the Word of the Lord into our daily thoughts and weighing every decision we face in light of it. It is finding rest from our cares by turning to the Lord daily in prayer.

Let’s pray today for the peace of God’s presence to give us rest for the trials of life.

January 11, 2025

Lessons on Life

“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.” Exodus 20:12

To honor family, respect marriage, and love your parents as you can is to further your posterity and prosperity. We may not have the perfect lineage, but by our Heavenly Father we can appreciate the good qualities and godly intentions of those that brought us into this world. Every happy and successful adult was first a grateful child who heeded a parent’s lesson on life.

Respecting the divine structure of the family leads to the quality of life that our Lord wants us to live. The influence handed down to us is what we tend to pass on to our children, good or bad, but if that is less than ideal, we can change that by doing our life in Christ.

Let’s pray today that those with ungodly parents will come to terms regarding that, with their Father in Heaven.

January 10, 2025

The Law of God

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.” Exodus 20:2

The 10 Commandments were given to a people redeemed from bondage that they may now live accordingly and not like they are still in bondage. When we have fallen at the foot of the Cross and have seen our sin in the nailed scarred hands of the Savior, we will rightly understand the law as the reflection of God’s righteous character. Though our sinful hearts fail to measure up, we plead the promise of grace and the power of the Holy Spirit.

We serve a Lord of law and order, not one of changing feelings or questionable temperament that leaves us guessing about His mood. In the 10 Commandments we see the behavior standard the Spirit of God is seeking to build in our lives.

Let’s pray today that we grow in grace and in a relationship with God’s Spirit so we uphold His law in our lives.

January 9, 2025

The Lord our Healer

“If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.” Exodus 15:26

There are physical benefits to the principles and precepts of the Bible, including belief in the Lord our Healer. When we follow Jesus we enjoy a new life that rejects things that war against life. Yes, we still have a sinful nature and we battle to live right but as the Holy Spirit leads we begin to follow His convictions, and that includes choosing what’s best for the life God gave us now.

Sometimes the most strict of health practices can still leave us vulnerable to sickness and diseases, because we are fallen humans in a fallen world. Thankfully, our Lord is our Creator, Healer, and the great Physician whom we can turn to in all our infirmaries.

Let’s pray today that we may follow our Lord’s lead in healthful choices and look toward Him when we are ill.

January 8, 2025

Redemption from Judgment

“The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.” Exodus 12:13

The Passover still reminds us that without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption from judgment. The blood was not from the Israelite’s themselves, but from a perfect lamb who was the sacrifice and by nature of the very sacrifice it is salvation by grace through faith in the word of God. God’s people were saved from judgment by the blood of the Lamb.

Jesus is the perfect Lamb of God whose blood was shed for our sins that we may pass from death to life. Ours is a death that is due us because of willful sinning, but eternal life is gift of that is appropriated through faith in the blood shed by Jesus.

Let’s pray today that we may trust in the blood of the Lamb of God for salvation and from judgment.

January 7, 2025

Follow in Faith

“Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.” Exodus 4:12

Excuses are for our own convincing when we are afraid to commit, but God works with our frailty and leads only as we follow in faith. Moses didn’t think he was the man God needed but that is precisely why God was able to use him. We ought not to rely on our own abilities when we are to act for God’s glory, but in our faithful action He leads and empowers us.

We follow in faith believing that God will do what we can not do for ourselves. There is no impediment to our physical body or human life that the Lord can not turn around as a witness for His glory and as a reminder for us to stay reliant on Him.

Let’s pray today that we may be ready to respond to our Lord’s commands in faithful obedience.

January 6, 2025

The Self-Evident God

“God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.”  Exodus 3:14

The God of the Bible is self-evident, timeless, eternal, unchanging, and forever faithful to His own word. Just as you can not look at a building and deny the existence of an architect, neither can you honestly look upon creation and deny the existence of a God who was, is, and yet to be. The God we serve may be beyond our finite mind’s comprehension, but He is also beyond all possible doubt.

The true God is not hidden or out of reach. The true God is self-defined by His Word and by His own creation, just look at the colorful flowers of the fields, the majesty of the mountain range, or the beauty of the sunset beyond the soft sands of a warm beach.

Let’s pray today that we always remember we serve a God who is faithful to His promises.