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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Colossians 2:16-17 do not let anyone judge you
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 2:16-17 16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, New Moons, or Sabbaths. 17 These are only a shadow of things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. This “therefore” should stand in our minds like twenty-foot tall letters […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 84:1-4 How lovely is your dwelling place
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 84:1-4 Psalm 84 For the choir director. According to Gittith. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. As we saw earlier in Psalm 81:1, “Gittith” is a musical style which may have involved intonation, instruments, or even rhythmic elements. The three Biblical “Gittith” psalms (8, 81, 84) are dissimilar enough […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 54:4-7 where do good works come from?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 54:4-7 4 Truly, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my life. 5 He will repay my enemies with evil. Destroy them in your faithfulness. This part of the Psalm is a typical example of a prayer for God to bring justice on his […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 54:1-3 Clear me of blame
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 54:1-3 PSALM 54 To the choir director. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. When the Ziphites went to Saul and said, “Is David not hiding among us?” David wrote this Psalm. The heading mentions Ziphites. Ziph was a village “at the extremity of the tribe of Judah toward the […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 81:8-16 If only
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 81:8-16 8 Hear, O my people, while I warn you! O Israel, if only you would listen to me! Suddenly, after what seemed as if it was a call to praise going out to people who were willing to praise, the Psalmist serves God by condemning the listeners. They […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 81:1-7 Sing to God our strength
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 81:1-7 Psalm 81 Psalm 81 is a sad song. It begins with a reminder of some of the ways God has blessed his people, even testing their faith. But beginning with verse 8, following an interlude (“selah”), God preaches about his people’s failure to keep the First Commandment. Perhaps they […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 2:15 a public spectacle
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 2:15 15 He disarmed the supernatural authorities and spiritual powers and made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by it. “It” is the cross from verse 14. What Paul is describing here is the event we call the Descent into Hell. This happened on Easter Sunday morning, after […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:14-19 Raise us to life
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:16-19 16 They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; They will perish from your rebuking look. The Psalm seems to veer from one part of the Passion of Jesus to another. He is “cut down,” already crucified and dead, and yet Asaph leaps ahead to […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:13-15 A boar of the forest
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:13-15 13 A boar of the forest tears at it, and whatever moves in the field feeds on it. Here Asaph continues his metaphor of the vine being ravaged. Previously, the walls that protected the vine were broken, and passers-by picked at the fruit. Now wild animals have entered […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:8-12 a vine out of Egypt
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:8-12 8 You brought a vine out of Egypt, you drove out the nations and planted it. The greatest saving act of the Old Testament was the rescue of enslaved Israel from bondage in Egypt. After a magnificent display of divine authority in the Ten Plagues, God convinced the […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:4-7 O God of Armies
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:4-7 4 O LORD God of Armies, how long will your anger burn against the prayers of your people? In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Hebrew title Adonai Sabaoth (not “sabbath”) was translated “Lord Almighty” (pantokrator, παντοκράτωρ). Here and throughout the Psalms, pantokrator is not […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:1-3 Hear us O Shepherd
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:1-3 PSALM 80 You Have Cut Down the Son of Man and Raised Him Up Again This is the ninth of the twelve Psalms ascribed to Asaph in the Bible (50, 73-83). It is sometimes thought to be a Psalm written shortly before the fall of the Northern Kingdom due […]
