Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Does your faith make you eager to forsake sin and make progress in holiness? That’s the kind of faith God requires.

The strength of your faith does not uproot tress. God does. The object of your faith is more important than the quantity of your faith.

If you are a Christian, death is no longer a punishment for sin. Your sin has been put away by the death of Christ. Christ took the punishment.

Be thankful for the past grace from the last year, and be confident in the future grace for the new year.

The lifetime of this year passes before our eyes, and we face the inevitable question: Did we live it well?

When God works in our hearts by the blood of Christ, we feel and think and act in ways more pleasing to him.

Flee from the wrath of God, tremble with joy that you are saved, and rescue others along the way.

Study the glory of God. Treasure it in all things and above all things. Then study your soul. Know why you treasure glories that are not God’s glory.

God did not create humans in his image to be aimless, like lifeless leaves blown around in the backyard of life. He created us to be purposeful.

Christ’s death was judgment on him because he bore our sins (not his own), and it was mercy toward us who trust him.

Jesus offers you a clear purpose for living, hope that your failures will be forgiven, and help in your fight against sin.

Jesus appeared in the world for two reasons: to help us stop sinning, and to satisfy God’s anger when we do sin.

Look to Jesus this Christmas. Receive the reconciliation that he purchased. Don’t put the gift on the shelf unopened.

The whole Bible is written that you might be awakened to the wonder that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came into the world.

Jesus’s birth was not a coming into being of a new person, but a coming into the world of an infinitely old person.