Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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.

If you want to give a gift to God this Christmas, walk off the assembly line of sin and don't go back. Take up your place, instead, in the picket line of love.

Forgiven, we are indestructible. Satan's plan was to condemn God's followers in God's own courtroom. But now, in Christ, there is no condemnation.

Distrust God's mercy, and all is lost. But conquer here, and nothing can harm you for a million ages.

God put our sins on his Son and judged them there, so that he could put them out of his mind, and deal with us mercifully and remain just.

God delights to show his power through apparent defeat. He sometimes retreats in order to win strategic victories.

Jesus came that we might have Life, now and forever. Make your Now the richer and deeper this Christmas by drinking at the fountain of Forever. It is so near.

The meaning of Christmas is that God takes salvation, puts it in your heart, and seals you as his child.

Our High Priest is seated at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. No Old Testament priest could ever say that.

Jesus came to orient all our attention on himself, ministering for us first on Calvary as our final Sacrifice and then in heaven as our final Priest.

In dying, Christ de-fanged the devil. How? By covering all our sin. This means that Satan has no legitimate grounds to accuse us before God.

Giving gifts to Christ is like fasting — going without something to show that Christ is more valuable than what you are going without.

Let this Christmas be the time when you ponder what it means — what it costs — to worship and follow Jesus, the Messiah.

God influenced the stars in the sky to get a little handful of foreign magi to Bethlehem so that they would worship his Son.

Christmas proves how Jesus is Messiah — a King, and Promise-Fulfiller — for all the nations, not just Israel.

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

God could have seen to it that Jesus have a room at his birth. But that would have been a detour off the Calvary road.

Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened.

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

The only people whose soul can truly magnify the Lord are people like Elizabeth and Mary. So, this Advent, imitate their lowliness and cheerful humility.

This Advent, bend the efforts of your imagination to make the wonder of Jesus's arrival visible for your children.

No matter how dirty with sin you are, through Christ you can see the light of God's glory and believe.

Our greatest problem is alienation from God. The only solution is the blood of Christ.

At the root of all ingratitude is the love of one's own greatness. But genuine gratitude glorifies God because it admits that we need him.

The whole duty of the Christian can be summed up in this: feel, think, and act in a way that will make God look as great as he really is.

Our salvation is as secure as Christ's priesthood is indestructible. His deity and resurrection from the dead secure his indestructible priesthood for us.

A life that gives glory to God for his grace and a life of deepest gladness are the same life. And what makes them one is thankfulness.

When Christ died for us, he did not buy the freedom from having to hold fast, but the enabling power to hold fast.

It is as unlikely that God will break his word of promise to bless us as it is that he will despise himself.

Getting ready to feast on all God's word is not first an intellectual challenge; it is first a moral challenge.

A thankful spirit is others-exalting and glad-hearted. Therefore, pray for a great awakening of humble gratitude.

Death is gain because Christians will then be perfect, pain-free, rested, at home, and with Christ.

Because we have a Great High Priest, the throne of God is a throne of grace.

The word of God is our only hope. It is sharp, living, and active. Therefore, be of good cheer in your battle to believe.

Don't be a fatalist. Be a Christian. Change is possible. God is alive. Christ is risen. The promises are true.

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.

When you feel discouraged and anxious, cling to God's promises to be with you and uphold you.