Solid Joys Daily Devotional

God’s pursuit of praise from us and our pursuit of pleasure in him are the same pursuit.

The Bible is a window that opens onto the sunrise glory of the risen Christ.

Christ’s resurrection is God’s declaration that we cannot work our way to glory, but that he intends to do the impossible to get us there.

You will always be better off to obey than to disobey Jesus, even if that obedience costs you your life.

Authentic speaking about God’s goodness and greatness must come from the soul. Blessing God with the mouth without the soul would be hypocrisy.

If we are to be sexually pure, God must have the supreme place in our feelings and thoughts.

All the other gifts of the gospel — forgiveness, justification, propitiation, eternal life — exist to make fellowship with God possible.

The death of the Son of God is outrageous enough, and the glory of God that it upholds is great enough, that God is vindicated to forgive our sins.

The power of God to fulfill your resolves will come to you as you trust in the future grace of his promises.

When we see the face of Christ, we see the face of God. And we see the glory of his face when we hear the story of the gospel of his death and resurrection.

Grace is not only God’s disposition to do good for us when we don’t deserve it. It is also a power that makes good things happen in us.

We know more of the mystery of our redemption than David did. We know Christ. But we lay hold of the mercy in the same way he did.

The gospel is the good news that God bought for us the everlasting enjoyment of God.

Stand in awe and be at peace, knowing that no natural event is outside of God’s wise and good purposes, and perfect control.

God made humans in his image so that the world would be filled with reflectors of God. Images of God. So that nobody would miss the point of creation.

God is totally committed to the perseverance and eternal security of his blood-bought children.

Yahweh is a proper name (like Peter) built out of the word for “I am.” It teaches us that God absolutely is.

Between eternity past in God’s predestination, and eternity future in God’s glorification, none is lost.

God will honor the work of his Son by raising our bodies from the dead, and we will use our bodies to glorify him forever.

God has justified us. There is only future grace in front of us. Satan cannot overturn that decree.