Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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.

God does not need us. Instead, his infinite self-sufficiency spills over in love to us who need him.

If none of God’s purposes can be frustrated, then he must be the happiest of all beings.

The quest for joy is not optional, but commanded.

Joy is not a mere option alongside worship. It is an essential component of worship.

Take up the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and fight the good fight — to live by faith in future grace.

God’s greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of his grace by making sinners happy in him.

The truth of Christ frees us from the slavery of sin, for the freedom of holiness.

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.