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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 6:6-7 Teeth, baptism and pomegranates
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 6:6-7 Click to listen to this devotion. 6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewescoming up from the washing.Each has its twin,not one of them is left alone.7 Your temples behind your veilare like the halves of a pomegranate. This is an echo of a longer passage (4:2-3) […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 6:4-5 The pulchritude of the church
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 6:4-5 Click to listen to this devotion. The Husband 4 My darling, you are as beautiful as Tirzah,lovely as Jerusalem, majestic with banners.5 Turn your eyes away from me; for they arouse me.Your hair is like a flock of goatsdescending from Gilead. From the beginning of chapter 5 through […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 2:18-19 Grace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 2:18-19 Click to listen to this devotion. 18 But if I build up again those things that I once tore down, then I prove that I am a lawbreaker. 19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. When he says “If I […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 2:17 Justification continues
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 2:17 Click to listen to this devotion. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, then is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not! Paul proposes a condition that forces the reader to think through the problem in a new way. […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 2:15-16 Justification
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 2:15-16 Click to listen to this devotion. 15 We are Jews by birth and not sinners from the Gentiles. 16 We know that no one is ever justified by trying to do the works of the law, but is justified only through faith in Jesus Christ, and so we believe in […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 2:14 The matter at heart
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 2:14 Click to listen to this devotion. 14 But when I saw that they were not walking straight, with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, though a Jew, live the Gentile way and not the Jewish way, how can you compel […]
God’s Word for You – Galatians 2:11-13 The mistake
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGALATIANS 2:11-13 Click to listen to this devotion. 11 When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. 12 Before certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 6:3 I am his, and he is mine
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 6:3 Click to listen to this devotion. 3 I am my beloved husband’s,and my beloved husband is mine;he browses among the lilies. As I have said before, at times in this translation and in the state of English in our present culture, it seems wiser and clearer to the […]
God’s Word for You – Song of Solomon 6:1-2 We will seek him with you
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUSONG OF SOLOMON 6:1-2 Click to listen to this devotion. Friends speak 6:1 Where has your beloved gone,O most beautiful of women?Which way has your beloved turned?We will seek him with you. This verse does not just float here without any connection to the rest of the Song. In chapter 5, the […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:60-61 the ropes of the wicked
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:60-61 Click to listen to this devotion. 60 I will hurry, I will not delay.I will keep your commandments.61 Though the ropes of the wicked bind me,I will not forget your law. What does hurrying have to do with keeping God’s commandments? Let’s look more closely at the second half of […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:58-59 Seek, consider and turn
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:58-59 Click to listen to this devotion. 58 I have sought your face with all my heart;be gracious to me according to your promise.59 I have considered my waysand have turned my steps to your testimonies. To seek God’s face is to look to him for every good blessing he gives. […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:57 My portion
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:57 Click to listen to this devotion. 57 You are my portion, O LORD;I have said I will keep your words. Almost all translations, including the ancient Greek and Latin, translate the word heleq as “portion.” All of our lexicons agree with this. But Mitchell Dahood (Anchor Bible Commentary) presents a […]
