Changed into Something Better
Read: 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. (v. 51) I enjoy listening to Christian music. Over the years I have accumulated a large collection of CDs. It was a sad day when my old multi-CD player stopped working. I thought I […]
Are You Really Listening?
Read: Matthew 13:1-9 [Jesus said], “He who has ears, let him hear.” (v. 9) Sometimes not being able to understand what someone says can be quite hilarious, like when my parents, aunt, and I rode a shuttle bus through Zion National Park in southwestern Utah. Our driver told us about another drive we could take […]
Carved In
Read: Isaiah 49:14-18 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. (v. 16) After I told a friend that Words of Hope had agreed to publish my autobiography, she immediately said that she wanted a signed copy. Knowing my disability makes it difficult for me to write my name, she bought me […]
Finally, Face-to-Face
Read: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. (v. 17) After over two decades of exchanging letters, emails, devotionals, and drafts of my autobiography, I felt like I knew the Words of Hope staff, […]
The Right Prescription
Read: John 21:15-23 Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!” (v. 22) A few years ago, I noticed that I couldn’t read as well as I used to, so I went to the eye doctor. Her first suggestion was […]
Drink More Water
Read: John 4:1-26 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” (John 7:37-38) “You need to drink more […]
Jonah’s Prayer of Complaint
Read: Jonah 4 O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. Therefore now, O Lord, […]
Daniel’s Prayer for Forgiveness
Read: Daniel 9:1-19 O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. (vv. 4-5) This beautiful and heartbreaking prayer is one of stark contrasts. […]
Daniel’s Prayer of Praise
Read: Daniel 2:1-24 To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king’s matter. (v. 23) All the wise men of Babylon were sentenced […]