Solid Joys Daily Devotional

To see God, and know him, and be in his presence is the soul’s final feast.

Two things have to be true if your joy is never to be taken from you. One is that the source of your joy lasts forever and the other is that you last forever.

If we live by faith in God’s promise of future grace, it will be very hard for anxiety to survive.

God will see to it that you are not tested in any given day more than you can bear.

God will certainly take his energy and creative skill and use it to care for his children who will live forever.

Jesus helps us to fight the good fight against unbelief and to be free from anxiety.

The way you fight the good fight for faith is by meditating on God’s assurances of future grace and by asking for the help of his Spirit.

If you treated your salvation no longer as a gift, but as a purchase, God would no longer be the free benefactor.

You can’t give anything to God or do anything for God that he hasn’t first given to you and done for you.

Fear not. Your adversaries can do no more than God grants. And he will grant you the faith you need. Those are gospel promises.

Nothing will separate us from the love of Christ because Christ is alive and is still loving us right now.

God loves us so much that he will not allow our preciousness to become our god.

In the old covenant, the gracious enabling power to obey God was not poured out as fully as it is since Jesus.

If you feel vulnerable, you can say to God, “Lord help me. I’m not even sure how to pray.” Trust that he will respond and will help you.

This is one of the beauties of the biblical doctrines of grace: their worst devastations prepare us for their greatest delights.