Day 188, Year 1 Welcoming the Lord’s Arrival “And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road.” (Matthew 21:8 NKJV) Today’s verse describes the actions of the crowd as they welcomed the Lord Jesus into Jerusalem at that time. The […]
Day 187, Year 1 What is Filling Your House? “In the same day I will punish All those who leap over the threshold, Who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.” (Zephaniah 1:9 NKJV) The first half of today’s verse indicates that God will punish all the people of Judah and Jerusalem at that
Day 186, Year 1 Is There a Way In? Jesus said, “… If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him….” (Revelation 3:20b NASB) When Jesus knocks on the door of our hearts, and we willingly open it, He will come into us. In fact, God initially created humans
Day 185, Year 1 Sooner or Later, the Lord will Surely Appear Before You “But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.” (1 Thessalonians 5:4 NKJV) After pondering the truth of Jesus knocking on the door of people’s hearts over the previous days, there is one
Day 184, Year 1 The Wayward … Will Destroy Themselves “For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them.” (Proverbs 1:32 NASB) “A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, Is like the beasts that perish.” (Psalm 49:20 NKJV) We have previously discussed that those
Day 183, Year 1 Breaking Free from Foolishness “Like a dog that returns to its vomit Is a fool who repeats his folly.” (Proverbs 26:11 NASB) “He will die for lack of instruction, And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.” (Proverbs 5:23 NASB) In the first verse of today, the term
Day 182, Year 1 Get Rid of the Traits of Pigs and Dogs “It has happened to them according to the true proverb, ‘A dog returns to its own vomit,’ and, ‘A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.’” (2 Peter 2:22 NASB) In today’s verse, the metaphor of dogs and pigs depicts
Day 181, Year 1 Be Wary of Gradually Turning Away from the Way of God “For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.” (2 Peter 2:21 NASB) People often turn away from the
Day 180, Year 1 Obeying or Abandoning God’s Commands? “For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.” (2 Peter 2:21 NKJV) “Commandment” in today’s verse is entole in Greek, which also means “precept, command,
Day 179, Year 1 Overcoming the Battle of the Mind … “Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:5 NKJV) The verse indicates that believers need to deal with the battle in our minds in
