Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Confidence in God’s absolute control is the source and power of radical obedience to the call of God.

The Bible is no empty word. It is your very life — the foundation and kindling of your joy!

What sustained Christ in the dark hours of Gethsemane was the hope of joy beyond the cross.

When it comes to being a candidate for grace, your background has nothing to do with God’s choice. That’s good news.

You have a possession in heaven that is better, and lasts longer, than anything this world can offer.

God intends for particular promises to help you fight against particular anxieties.

The Lord has spoken: It is more blessed to love than to live in luxury! More blessed now, and forever.

In Jesus Christ we who are born of God have the unspeakable privilege of knowing Yahweh as our Father.

Only Jesus, the Son of God who died and rose for us, can make us truly free.

Sit down to the feast of joy in Christ and worship the King of Glory. The banquet hall is very large.

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 since they 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.

God is never forced into a situation where he must do something in which he cannot rejoice.

The worth and beauty of the Son come not just from his majesty, nor just from his meekness, but from the way these mingle in perfect proportion.

By all means work. But always look to the Lord for the decisive, supernatural work needed to fulfill his purposes.

Never grow weary of exploring and exulting in the inexhaustible privilege of being “in Christ Jesus.”

The Father’s infinite pleasure in his own perfections is the fountain of our everlasting joy and forgiveness.

The extent of Christ’s reign reaches to the smallest and biggest enemy of his glory in your life, and in this universe. It will be defeated.

God rejoices in the works of creation because they point us beyond themselves to God himself.

The sweetest experience of God’s love is conditional on our transformation into the kind of people whose emotions and choices and actions please God.

Day and night are saying one thing: God is glorious! Turn away from the creation as your supreme satisfaction, and delight yourself in the Lord of glory.

God is love precisely because he relentlessly pursues the praises of his name in the hearts of his people.

If God loves us enough to make our joy full, he must not only give us himself; he must also win from us the praise of our hearts.

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.