Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle? — Job 38:22-23 If you’ve ever driven over a mountain pass in a snowstorm, you may feel like you have seen God’s storehouses of snow and hail!…
God’s Timing: He Knows the Future
In the Fullness of Time But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law. — Galatians 4:4 God often does the most extraordinary things in the most ordinary ways. Sometimes His acts are clearly extraordinary — like the burning bush where Moses…
Our True Home
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. — John 10:10 Several years ago, during December, we took a family trip to New York City. Getting to show Caroline the city at Christmastime will go down as one of…
The Greatest Gift
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men! — Luke 2:14 In my prayer room, I have a beautiful painting of the holy nativity picturing Joseph, a carpenter, who was an earthly father to the Son of God, and the young mother, Mary, a virgin, watching over the baby who…
The Invasion of Christmas
Editor’s Note: It’s Sit & Listen Saturday at Devotionals Daily. Enjoy reading as well as listening to this devotion from John Eldredge’s newest devotional, Restoration Year. Listen on the blog below or on your Alexa device by enabling the skill and then prompting, “Alexa, ask devotionals to read today’s devotion.” From Heaven’s Point of View…
A Birthday Cake for Jesus
The tradition of baking birthday cakes has existed as long as recipes for cakes have been distributed and calendars have recorded the days, weeks, and years. It is a well-established fact that throughout most of the world, marking the passing of another year of life remains one of the most important traditions for people of…
The Astonishing Gift
I am the Word that became flesh. I have always been, and I will always be. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. As you think about Me as a baby, born in Bethlehem, do not lose sight of My divinity. This baby who grew…
Your Prince of Peace
Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom His favor rests. — Luke 2:14 NIV Does your heart yearn for peace? The hectic nature of Christmas sometimes inspires more weariness, conflict, loneliness, and feelings of unworthiness than the joy promised by the angels at Christ’s birth. The tumult…
Your Christmas Story
Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. — Luke 1:26-27 What if Joseph and Mary had shown up in furs with a…
There Is Grief in the Family Tree of Jesus
Abraham begot Isaac… David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah. — Matthew 1:2, Matthew 1:6 Talk about heartbreak, sorrow, misery, and grief — all those things are woven through the fabric of our Lord’s family tree. Can you feel their grief behind these words? The grief of Abraham…