DAILY?READINGS: Leviticus 1; Psalms 96-98; Acts 24:24 to 25:12
Give me a blessing. Judges 1:15
Achsah was a bold woman. She had asked her father Caleb for a field, and now she was asking for something more. It wasn’t her greed—it was her insight. She knew her father, and better, she knew her father’s heart. She wanted to get because he was willing to give. Our heavenly Father is no different, so we must emulate Achsah. Are we limiting ourselves because we doubt the generous heart of God? James tells us that we don’t get because we don’t ask (James 4:2). We also miss out on right things because we ask with wrong motives (James 4:3). We are to come boldly to the throne of grace. That sounds like something that Achsah would do and we should too. —Norman Craig Funston
O this full and perfect peace! O this transport all divine!
In a love which cannot cease, I am His and He is mine. —G. W. Robinson