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
Jan 22, 2025, 10:49 AM
Passage Read: Joshua 18-21
Meditation Verse: 18:3
Thought
Judah, Ephraim, Gad, Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh had all claimed their inheritance. The rest of the tribes remained in camp, waiting for their allotment. Four and a half tribes just asked for or took what they wanted.
Jan 21, 2025, 10:51 AM
Passage Read: Joshua 14-17
Meditation Verses: 17:16-18
Thought
Joshua is beginning to record those groups of Canaanites that were too strong for the Israelites to destroy. He also records that though they were too strong now, in time the Israelites would be strong enough to make them forced labor.
Jan 20, 2025, 6:47 PM
Passage Read: Joshua 10-13
Meditation Verse: 10:8
Thought
Joshua and the Israelites were commissioned by God to go and take the land. Here God reminds Joshua that he has no need to be afraid of a large number of kings coming against them, because it is God's will that they be defeated, so they will not be able to withstand the Israelites.
Jan 19, 2025, 6:49 PM
Passage Read: Joshua 6-9
Meditation Verses: 7:20-21
Thought
Achan confessed his sin and returned the things he had stolen, but that didn't remove the consequence of his actions. He still bore the death penalty, he and his whole family. Even all he had and all he'd stolen were buried with him.
Jan 18, 2025, 6:51 PM
Passage Read: Joshua 2-5
Meditation Verses: 2:9-12
Thought
There are two responses to the Lord's overwhelming power and authority and commitment to judge: surrender and plead for life, or tremble and hopelessly defend. Rahab saw the certainty of God's coming and surety of His victory, and she decided to beg for her life and the lives of her family.