Today's Reading: There is no reading today, but you can use this time to catch up on any days that you may have missed this week. Click here to access prior days. Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind. For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your...
Today's Reading: 2 Samuel 222 Samuel 23Psalm 57 Even in despair, hiding alone in dark caves while being hunted by Saul, David chose to worship God with all his heart. Instead of keeping God’s goodness to himself in private, he declared: “I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the...
Today's Reading: 2 Samuel 192 Samuel 202 Samuel 21Psalm 5Psalm 38Psalm 42 When David returned to Jerusalem, Shimei begged for mercy after cursing him and throwing rocks at him. Abishai immediately demanded, “Shall not Shimei be put to death for cursing the Lord’s anointed?&rdquo...
Today's Reading: Psalm 26Psalm 40Psalm 41Psalm 58Psalm 61Psalm 62Psalm 64 In Psalm 40, David rejoiced that God lifted him from the pit and put a new song in his mouth. This points to the Messiah. “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me: I delight to do your...
Today's Reading: 2 Samuel 162 Samuel 172 Samuel 18 When Absalom gathered the people of Israel to his side and forced David to flee Jerusalem, God was working in the background. He sent unexpected grace from a foreigner named Ittai the Gittite. Just days earlier, Ittai was recorded in Scripture...
Today's Reading: Psalm 3Psalm 4Psalm 13Psalm 28Psalm 55 In Psalm 4, David felt like a scapegoat (see Leviticus 16, Day of Atonement), an innocent animal to carry away the sins and guilt of the people. They were blaming him for the nation’s problems. David was the convenient person to...
Today's Reading: 2 Samuel 132 Samuel 142 Samuel 15 Amnon’s sin of incest and rape against his half-sister Tamar echoes his father David’s earlier sin with Bathsheba. Both men abused their power, David through adultery and the murder of Uriah, and Amnon through lust and rape. David...
Today's Reading: There is no reading today, but you can use this time to catch up on any days that you may have missed this week. Click here to access prior days. Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for my soul.Psalm 66:16 This verse is a personal...
Today's Reading: Psalm 32Psalm 86Psalm 102Psalm 103Psalm 122 Psalm 32 celebrates the joy and freedom that come when our sins are forgiven. It is a blessing that our sins are covered and that God does not want to keep a permanent record of them. God is not blessing our sin, but us. When we try to...
Today's Reading: 2 Samuel 112 Samuel 121 Chronicles 20Psalm 51 Sin has a rippling effect, even on the innocent. Like a rock thrown into still water, making rings move outward from the initial splash, sin makes the same ripples, sometimes unseen. God gives both justice and mercy, but His...
