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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:81-82 My soul faints
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:81-82 Click to listen to this devotion. The Kaph stanza (verses 81-88) returns to the problem of life among God’s wicked enemies, especially showing that they dig pitfalls for God’s people (vs, 85). “Men persecute me without cause” (vs. 86). These troubles explain the complaints in the earlier verses: “My soul […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:78-80 They have wronged me
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:78-80 Click to listen to this devotion. 78 May the proud be put to shamefor they have wronged me with lies.But I will meditate on your precepts. “The proud one will stumble and fall,” Jeremiah says, “and no one will help him up” (Jeremiah 50:32). This doesn’t always happen in our […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:76-77 Mercy and Comfort
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:76-77 Click to listen to this devotion. 76 Please let your mercy be my comfort,according to your saying to your servant.77 Let your compassion come to me that I may live,for your law is my delight. These two verses have a similar theme: The believer, surrounded by sin, reaches out to […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 8:6-7 The blaze of the LORD
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 8:6-7 Click to listen to this devotion. 6 Place me like a seal over your heart,like a seal on your arm. A seal was a man’s own identification. A man often wore his seal around his neck on a cord, like the one Judah wore and had to give […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 8:5 Under the apple tree
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 8:5 Click to listen to this devotion. The Wife 5 Who is this coming up from the desertleaning on her lover? This final chapter (there are only nine verses left after this one) has been described as a kind of “curtain call” in which all of the characters appear […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:73-75 Righteousness itself
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:73-75 Click to listen to this devotion. My outline of the Great Psalm takes the theme of this stanza, “Love for God’s Word,” and notes that it always follows a section describing the return to the word (as we just saw in verses 65-72) and before a section that describes the […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:70-72 In the Word we find forgiveness
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:70-72 Click to listen to this devotion. 70 Their hearts are fat and unfeeling,but I delight in your law. “Fat and unfeeling” is my attempt to bring “gross as lard” into English, since it is obviously a Hebrew idiom for someone who is uncaring, callous, and perhaps stupid. The wicked don’t […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:68-69 God is good
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:68-69 Click to listen to this devotion. 68 You are good, and what you do is good;teach me your statutes. Statutes emphasize the Word of God in its permanence. During the exodus, when the Israelites were on their way to Mount Sinai, they came to a spring they called Marah, or […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:65-67 Teach me good judgment
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:65-67 Click to listen to this devotion. The next eight verses all begin with the Hebrew letter Teth, and five of the eight verses feature the word “good” (tov). God is good in every way. Goodness is one of his divine attributes; he is “the only one who is good” (Matthew […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:62-64 At midnight I rise
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:62-64 Click to listen to this devotion. 62 At midnight I rise to give you thanksfor your righteous judgments. Under the monasticism of the Medieval church, worship in monasteries and convents was held every three hours, according to a misapplication of various passages of the Scriptures. None of the passages were […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 8:2-4 Where she taught me
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 8:2-4 Click to listen to this devotion. 2 I would lead you.I would bring you to my mother’s house–where she taught me.I would give you spiced wine to drink,the juice of my pomegranates. This verse, from the mouth of the bride, is strange to consider from the standpoint of […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 8:1 I would kiss you…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 8:1 Click to listen to this devotion. The Wife (or Wife to be) 8:1 I wish you were like a brother to me,who was nursed at my mother’s breasts!Then I could meet you outside.I would kiss you,and no one would despise me. Here in the final chapter, the Song […]
