Your rest is not to be found in figuring your life out, but in trusting the One who has it all figured out for your good and his glory. Here’s the first part of January 2’s entry from Paul David Tripp’s New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional: Here are just a couple of different examples to give you an idea. Example devotional entriesĭevotionals run the gamut from warm and conversational to more scholarly or poetic, and some even include separate action items or application questions. Thankfully, the free Logos Bible app gave me access to several devotionals, all of them great. These resources are available to you everywhere you go, so even if the devotional life is painfully convicting, at least it can be convenient. I would need to bring my sinful heart, sometimes kicking and screaming, into a place of submission to the truth I had already learned.Ī daily devotional became one of the primary tools that I used to accomplish that. If I was going to grow into a spiritual father, like John describes in 1 John 2:14, I would need to do something more difficult than suppressing my emotions by force of will. I realized that study was not quite enough. Actually, I had several of them in rapid succession. I had a Romans 7:15 moment, like I’m sure we all have at some point. I harbored my own aversion to personal devotions until I became painfully aware of my need for them. We prefer to ignore our feelings, to treat them as vestigial. ![]() It’s no wonder they do not come easily to the more pragmatic among us. More than what we ought to think, devotions show us how we ought to feel, so that our impulse decisions are as godly as our thoughtful ones. ![]() Truth you know and do not practice is wasted truth.Īnd that is what a devotional is for. Knowledge must mature into virtue or it will spoil into vanity. Knowledge may be the first thing, but it is not everything. Few of us begin our spiritual journey with full knowledge, but as we study Scripture and sit under preaching, our knowledge base grows broader and our understanding grows deeper. ![]() We certainly know what a devotional is not.Ī devotional is not designed to change your mind it’s meant to change your heart.Ī clear understanding of God’s Word is very important. We all understand a devotional in an experiential sense-who hasn’t sat through some early hours with a cup of coffee and an aging copy of My Utmost for His Highest?-but few can explain in a concise way what a devotional is. It can be a daily selection of verses, accompanied by a thoughtful essay. Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Email LinkedIn
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