Personal Devotions ⁽¹¹²²⁾

Passage Read: 1 Samuel 5-8 Meditation Verses: 6:18-20 How often is this the response to God's holiness, to His righteous standard? Send Him somewhere else! Get away from Him, but not too far. The Philistines couldn't stand before Him, so they sent Him away. They…

Passage Read: 1 Samuel 1-4 Meditation Verse: 3:18 Eli had given up on his sons and on his line. He had rebuked his sons, but they didn't listen, and that was it. He didn't remove them from their priesthood or do anything else to try…

Passage Read: Ruth 1-4 Meditation Verse: 4:15 This story of Ruth and Naomi is a welcome counterpoint to the stereotype of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. Naomi must have been a very godly woman to inspire such loyalty among her daughters-in-law. Though the one went home, they…

Passage Read: Judges 18-21 Meditation Verse: 19:25 There is so much carnage in these last chapters of Judges, not just war, but rape and idolatry. It's like Israel has learned nothing. How far they have fallen! These are not the times or the practices to…

Passage Read: Judges 14-17 Meditation Verses: 16:30-31 What was God thinking when He chose Samson as judge? Was Israel so clueless at this point that Samson was the best He could find? God uses him and blesses him with great strength, but he is no…