Daily Devotions

Today's Scripture: “‘Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.’ So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.” Genesis 11:7-8; ESV

Theme: Although the Lord frustrated the prideful plans and turned them into babble, He brought healing to us when Jesus came and gave us His Spirit.

Today's Scripture: “Then they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.’” Genesis 11:4, ESV

Theme: The desire for fame, for legacy, and purpose is human. The desire to take the place of God started in the Garden and continues to this day.

Today's Scripture: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.” Romans 3:23-25a, ESV

Theme: We tend to love the gift more than the giver, but God has given us the ultimate gift. Be grateful!

Today’s Scripture: “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, of whom it was said, ‘Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.’ He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back”. Hebrews 11:17-19, ESV

Theme: Faith and obedience are an offering we can all bring.

Today's Scripture: “And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.” Genesis 22:13, ESV 

Theme: God Himself provided the substitutionary sacrifice for Isaac, and for my sins.