Daily Devotions

Ecc. 4:9-12 Two are better than one because they have a more satisfying return for their labor; for if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion.  But woe to him who is alone when he falls and does not have another to lift him up.  Again, if two lie down together,…

Ecc. 4:1-3 Then I looked again and considered all the acts of oppression that were being practiced under the sun.  And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.  So…

Ecc. 3:11 He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time.  He has also planted eternity in the human heart—yet man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Oh, the way we twist and pervert the longings that God places in our hearts!  This man had billions of…

Ecc. 2:18-21 And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.  And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool?  Yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and…

Ecc. 1:16-18 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.  And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was…

Eph. 4:17-19 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.  They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening…

Song of Songs 3:3-4 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city.  “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”  Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves.  I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house,…

Rev. 2:8-11 To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.  I know your afflictions and your poverty‒yet you are rich!  I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are…

Song of Songs 1:12-14 While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.  My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.  My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. The memorial service following my sister’s death was difficult for…

Jer. 2:31-32 You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness?  Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more’?  Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments?  Yet…