Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Satan cannot destroy us. In fact, God turns all his attacks finally against him and for us.

Becoming a Christian and being a Christian happen in the same way: by hoping in Jesus.

When anxiety blurs our vision of God’s glory, it does not mean that we are faithless. It means our faith is being attacked.

One day, we will see God’s glory, and marvel at it in such a way that he will be glorified in us for all the world to see.

It is possible to pursue God without glorifying God. If we want our quest to honor God, we must pursue him for the joy of fellowship with him.

There are precious experiences of the love of God that require that we fight pride, seek humility, and cherish the nearness of God.

Loving acts are genuine to the degree that they are not done begrudgingly.

Being a Christian is a very serious business, though not a sour business. We are simply blood-earnest about being happy in our great salvation.

What you thought was a mere struggle with an anxious disposition might really be a far deeper struggle with trusting God.

It is truer in suffering than anywhere else that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

Whether we focus on the riches of the reward or the refining effects of suffering, God’s purpose is that our joy in suffering be sustained.

We exhibit the sufferings of Christ when we ourselves suffer for those we are trying to win.

God designs suffering not only as a way to wean Christians off of self and onto grace, but also as a way to spotlight that grace and make it shine.

Be satisfied in Jesus so that you do not get lured downstream by deceitful desires.

Suffering proves our allegiance to Christ’s goodness and reveals his worth as an all-sufficient prize.

Jesus himself makes up for every sacrifice he will ever call us to make. It is worth it to lose it all in order to gain Christ.

God has a people in every people group. He will call them through the gospel with Creator power. And they will believe!

“All things are possible with God!” — in front the words give hope, and behind they give humility. They are the antidote to both despair and pride.

God’s call is irresistible in the sense that it can overcome all resistance. It is infallibly effective according to God’s purpose.

We see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So also we see God the Father by seeing Jesus.

The Word that God spoke by his Son is the decisive Word. It will not be followed in this age by any greater word or replacement word.

When Christ redeems marriage, he does not dismantle loving headship and willing submission. He restores it.

Husbands and wives should seek to live after the distinctive model of God’s pure and glad design for Christ and the church.

The first priority in praying is to ask our heavenly Father to cause his name to be hallowed. In us. In the church. In the world. Everywhere.

The union between Christ and his bride is so close that any good done to her is a good done to himself.

Jesus did not want a dirty and unholy wife. Therefore, he was willing to die to cleanse her so that he could present her to himself.

You can steal to get; or you can work to get; or you can work to get in order to give.

It is a horrifying thing to use your God-given life to commit adultery against the Almighty.

One of the main reasons we so often fail to have consistent habits of happy, fruitful prayer is simply that we don’t plan to.

God takes out our old proud hearts and gives new soft ones, which are easily humbled and crushed by the sin that remains.

The very heart of God’s glory is the fullness of grace that overflows in kindness to needy people.

God aims to be our servant, because he aims to get the glory as the Giver.

God is glorified when we turn away from ourselves to him in the confidence that he will provide the help we need.

The greatest news is that the cross upholds the worth of God’s glory, the honor of his Son, and the eternal salvation of his elect.

The good news is that God himself has decreed a way to satisfy the demands of his justice without condemning the whole human race.

All the omnipotent energy that drives the heart of God to pursue his own glory also drives him to satisfy the hearts of those who seek their joy in him.

Be freed from the burden of bearing your own load. Let God do that work. God loves to show his God-ness by working for us.

When we share in the happiness of God, we share in the very pleasure that the Father has in the Son.

When you lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up.

Imagine being able to enjoy what is most enjoyable with unbounded energy and passion forever. One day, God’s delight in his Son will be in us.