Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Dec 5, 2025, 6:47 AM
Passage Read: Revelation 9-10
Meditation Verses: 9:14-15
Thought
I am glad these are things I will not see in person, yet it still amazes me that these four angels and apparently their mounted troops were created for only one thing, and they have been waiting since their creation for this moment. In fact, they're bound in place so that they cannot go out early and torment men before the appointed time, as if they're chomping at the bit to do their deed.
Dec 4, 2025, 7:22 AM
Passage Read: Revelation 7-8
Meditation Verses: 7:14-15
Thought
This last generation of believers who must endure the great tribulation are given what seems to be special status and reward: They are like the priests of old who stand in the presence of God forever, who never leave His sight, who serve the Lord most closely and dwell in His own house forever.
Dec 3, 2025, 6:48 AM
Passage Read: Revelation 5-6
Meditation Verses: 6:15-17
Thought
One day, the wrath of God will be poured out on all the wicked of the earth, rich and poor, powerful and insignificant, everyone who didn't think it worthwhile to believe and obey the Son of God. And that's after God sends a conqueror to conquer, murderous rage between peoples, famine and death and plague and wild beasts that will kill a fourth of the world!
Dec 2, 2025, 12:52 PM
Passage Read: Revelation 3-4
Meditation Verses: 3:3-5
Thought
The church in Sardis is not like the church in Laodicea. In Laodicea, they were proud and self-sufficient and not learning from the Lord, because they were so materially prosperous. In Sardis, they had just grown lazy and uncaring. They seemed alive but most were asleep. God expected then to have more righteous deeds.
Dec 1, 2025, 6:56 AM
Passage Read: Revelation 1-2
Meditation Verses: 2:24-25
Thought
There are a number of different false teachers mentioned in this chapter, but they all seem to have one thing in common: They justify sexual immorality and lead the church into this sin. They bring some new teaching, here called "Satan's so-called deep secrets," some supposedly hidden knowledge that turns all the rest of God's Word on its head.