Daily Devotions

Today's Scripture: “O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this.” Ezra 9:15, ESV 

Theme: God is holy and just. Because of His great love for us, He made a way to atone for our guilt through the blood of Christ. 

Today’s Scripture: “For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.” Ezra 9:9, ESV 

Theme: Thank the Lord God that Jesus has died and risen to end our slavery to sin. 

Today's Scripture: "From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today." Ezra 9:7, ESV 

Theme: Habitual sin has dire consequences: not always the punishment of God, but the result of life without Him. 

Today’s Scripture: “Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.” Proverbs 26:11, ESV 

Theme: People are prone to repeat “favorite” sins, yet those patterns are not beneficial to us and when we capitulate to the same repeated sins, we harm ourselves and behave foolishly. 

Today's Scripture: “Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth” Philippians 2:9-10, ESV 

Theme: Developing the mind of Christ, while truly difficult to both attain and maintain, is ultimately rewarded by God.