Author: Gospel Folio Press

DAILY READINGS: Numbers 30-31; Proverbs 26:13 to 27:27; Luke 3

How precious is the Lord Jesus to me and to you? More precious than everything else? Precious enough to daily spend time in His Word? Precious enough to delight in His presence and speak often with Him everyday? Precious enough to look forward to the Lord’s Day to keep His dying request? “Do ye this in remembrance of Me until I come”. May it be so for His name sake! —E. MacLelland

These are the first two times the word “saw” is used in relation to God. In the first instance God saw that all of His work was very good. In the second, He saw that all of man’s works were wicked. It seems so much so in our lives too. What He does is so good and what we do falls so far short. But He doesn’t give up on us. The Lord sought out Noah. He rested His eyes upon him and Noah found grace in that gaze. Look to Him today and you will find grace in His eyes too. —S. McEachern

The Law is God’s perfect standard reflecting His own holy character. What hope do we have to ever keep God’s perfect Law? The answer—the Lord Jesus came “to fulfill” the Law. In His life He became our perfect example; “I always do those things that please Him” (John 8:29). The Law says, “the soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Ezek. 8:4). “…Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8). The Lord Jesus Christ fulfills the Law perfectly! He is our substitute, example and our daily Sanctification. —Milton Haack

When we begin to feel no one cares for us, we should take heart from God’s compassionate response to Israel’s experience in Egypt. We read that God heard their groaning, that He looked upon them and said, I have seen their affliction; I have heard their cry; I know their sorrows (Ex. 3:7). That same heavenly Father is caring for us today— the only One able to meet every need. —W. Ross Rainey

The high priest had found the long lost Word of God and read it to Josiah. This young king was convicted by it and dedicated his life to obeying what God had written. The result was a major revival. Are you, as a young person today, willing to take God’s Word at face value and commit your life to obeying it? If so, you too will see God’s rich blessing flowing through you. —David Croudace

My finger was caught on a thorn while pruning roses. It hurt to move my hand in the direction of the thorn but it was the only way I could get free. Life trials, whether physical or emotional, can seem unbearable at times. There seems to be no way out, but this is where faith is forged. Endure. Go where God is leading, even when there is pain and hurt. Trust Him. He will make a way. —Jerry Proctor

There seems to be so much we don’t know about heaven. What will we look like? How old will we be? What, exactly, will we do for all of eternity? For all the other uncertainties, there is one thing we know to be absolutely sure—to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord! All else comes into focus when we keep our eyes on Him. —L. Shatford

F. C. Jennings gives a thought provoking comment on this passage. “God’s heart would not allow Him to leave man in His poor sinful condition—that would so lacerate His own heart that He Himself needs salvation from such a condition.” Because there was no intercessor to meet man’s great need, God Himself, in the form of Christ, stepped between and interceded for us. Oh how He loves you and me! —Don MacMullen