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
Nov 30, 2025, 8:44 AM
Passage Read: 3 John 1 - Jude 1
Meditation Verse: Jude 1:10
Thought
The are many things, events and commands in Scripture that I don't understand. Here is a warning that if I speak against these things, if I dare to criticize or condemn or argue against them, I am more like these false teachers marked for destruction than a true believer in Jesus. If I insist on submitting only to those things I do understand, more often than not, those things are things of the world and the flesh that I naturally and in my natural man understand.
Nov 20, 2024, 9:35 PM
Passage Read: 3 John 1 - Jude 1
Meditation Verse: Jude 1:3-4
Thought
Jude urges the believers to fight diligently for the faith, the gospel that once for all was handed down to us by the Apostles. Why do we need to fight for it? Because there are certain men who have crept in unnoticed, who have been marked for destruction from the foundation of the world, just as we who believe were chosen for salvation from the beginning of the world. There is no hope for these men; God will not grant them repentance.
Nov 5, 2023, 7:59 AM
Passage Read: 3 John 1 - Jude 1
Meditation Verse: Jude 1:4
Thought
How do such men secretly slip in among the believers when their deeds and words are so clearly evil? They must be careful not to say much in the main gathering of believers but do their grumbling and fault-finding in small groups, where the leadership is not as alert. How important it is to have mature and wise believers in every small group. Indeed, for one or more of the elders and pastors to join in every meeting of believers.