Daily Devotions

Today’s Scripture: “The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, 'Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!’” John 1:29, ESV 

Theme: Jesus, the Lamb of God, defeats sin by His sacrifice. 

Today’s Scripture: “And to Adam he said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, “You shall not eat of it,” cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life’.... And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.” Genesis 3:17,21, ESV 

Theme: Sacrifice is necessary because of our disobedience and the resulting curse. 

Today’s Scripture: "So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.” Genesis 3:6, ESV 

Theme: Desires and greed can lead us away from God and towards death. 

Today’s Scripture: “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God actually say, “You shall not eat of any tree in the garden”’?” Genesis 3:1, ESV 

Theme: We are tempted to question God’s good plans. This leads to sin and death. 

Today’s Scripture: “But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.” James 1:14-15, ESV 

Theme: My sin causes death, both spiritual and physical.