Solid Joys Daily Devotional
by Desiring God
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Do Not Harden Your Heart
Do Not Harden Your Heart
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A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.
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- Do Not Harden Your Heart · 3 minThe Bible’s warnings are written that you might believe and endure, and have life.
- How Satan Serves God · 4 minSatan cannot destroy us. In fact, God turns all his attacks finally against him and for us.
- We Are His House · 4 minBecoming a Christian and being a Christian happen in the same way: by hoping in Jesus.
- Wipe Your Fears Away · 3 minWhen anxiety blurs our vision of God’s glory, it does not mean that we are faithless. It means our faith is being attacked.
- Marveling at the End of History · 4 minOne day, we will see God’s glory, and marvel at it in such a way that he will be glorified in us for all the world to see.
- We Honor What We Enjoy · 3 minIt is possible to pursue God without glorifying God. If we want our quest to honor God, we must pursue him for the joy of fellowship with him.
- Is God’s Love Conditional? · 4 minThere are precious experiences of the love of God that require that we fight pride, seek humility, and cherish the nearness of God.
- Love One Another Gladly · 4 minLoving acts are genuine to the degree that they are not done begrudgingly.
- Do You Neglect Your Salvation? · 4 minBeing a Christian is a very serious business, though not a sour business. We are simply blood-earnest about being happy in our great salvation.
- The Real Problem with Anxiety · 3 minWhat you thought was a mere struggle with an anxious disposition might really be a far deeper struggle with trusting God.
- The Meaning of Suffering · 3 minIt is truer in suffering than anywhere else that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
- Rejoicing in Pain · 4 minWhether we focus on the riches of the reward or the refining effects of suffering, God’s purpose is that our joy in suffering be sustained.
- Christ’s Sufferings in Us · 3 minWe exhibit the sufferings of Christ when we ourselves suffer for those we are trying to win.
- The Seminary of Suffering · 3 minGod designs suffering not only as a way to wean Christians off of self and onto grace, but also as a way to spotlight that grace and make it shine.
- The Danger of Drifting · 3 minBe satisfied in Jesus so that you do not get lured downstream by deceitful desires.
- Sin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage · 5 minSuffering proves our allegiance to Christ’s goodness and reveals his worth as an all-sufficient prize.
- Radical Recompense · 3 minJesus himself makes up for every sacrifice he will ever call us to make. It is worth it to lose it all in order to gain Christ.
- Possible with God · 3 minGod has a people in every people group. He will call them through the gospel with Creator power. And they will believe!
- Medicine for the Missionary · 3 min“All things are possible with God!” — in front the words give hope, and behind they give humility. They are the antidote to both despair and pride.
- The Great Missionary Hope · 4 minGod’s call is irresistible in the sense that it can overcome all resistance. It is infallibly effective according to God’s purpose.
- Christ Is Like Sunlight · 3 minWe see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So also we see God the Father by seeing Jesus.
- God’s Final, Decisive Word · 3 minThe Word that God spoke by his Son is the decisive Word. It will not be followed in this age by any greater word or replacement word.
- Hedonism for Husbands and Wives · 4 minWhen Christ redeems marriage, he does not dismantle loving headship and willing submission. He restores it.
- The Mystery of Marriage · 4 minHusbands and wives should seek to live after the distinctive model of God’s pure and glad design for Christ and the church.
- Prayer’s First Priority · 3 minThe first priority in praying is to ask our heavenly Father to cause his name to be hallowed. In us. In the church. In the world. Everywhere.
- Love’s Greatest Happiness · 3 minThe union between Christ and his bride is so close that any good done to her is a good done to himself.
- Jesus’s Joy in Marriage · 4 minJesus did not want a dirty and unholy wife. Therefore, he was willing to die to cleanse her so that he could present her to himself.
- The Purpose of Prosperity · 3 minYou can steal to get; or you can work to get; or you can work to get in order to give.
- Fear and Hope in God’s Jealousy · 3 minIt is a horrifying thing to use your God-given life to commit adultery against the Almighty.
- Plan for Prayer · 3 minOne of the main reasons we so often fail to have consistent habits of happy, fruitful prayer is simply that we don’t plan to.
- God Heals by Humbling · 4 minGod takes out our old proud hearts and gives new soft ones, which are easily humbled and crushed by the sin that remains.
- The Master Servant · 4 minThe very heart of God’s glory is the fullness of grace that overflows in kindness to needy people.
- Beware of Serving God · 4 minGod aims to be our servant, because he aims to get the glory as the Giver.
- We Can Do Nothing · 4 minGod is glorified when we turn away from ourselves to him in the confidence that he will provide the help we need.
- Best Passage Ever · 4 minThe greatest news is that the cross upholds the worth of God’s glory, the honor of his Son, and the eternal salvation of his elect.
- God’s Wise Mercy · 3 minThe good news is that God himself has decreed a way to satisfy the demands of his justice without condemning the whole human race.
- Our Good Is God’s Delight · 3 minAll the omnipotent energy that drives the heart of God to pursue his own glory also drives him to satisfy the hearts of those who seek their joy in him.
- We Wait, He Works · 4 minBe freed from the burden of bearing your own load. Let God do that work. God loves to show his God-ness by working for us.
- The Happy God · 3 minWhen we share in the happiness of God, we share in the very pleasure that the Father has in the Son.
- Joy Unbound · 3 minImagine being able to enjoy what is most enjoyable with unbounded energy and passion forever. One day, God’s delight in his Son will be in us.
- Absolute, Sovereign, Almighty Love · 3 minGod does not need us. Instead, his infinite self-sufficiency spills over in love to us who need him.
- God Isn’t Gloomy · 4 minIf none of God’s purposes can be frustrated, then he must be the happiest of all beings.
- The Most Liberating Discovery · 4 minJoy is not a mere option alongside worship. It is an essential component of worship.
- Make War with Unbelief · 3 minTake 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.
- Our Good Is His Glory · 4 minGod’s greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of his grace by making sinners happy in him.
- The Power of a Superior Promise · 3 minThe truth of Christ frees us from the slavery of sin, for the freedom of holiness.
- Live Confident in God’s Sovereign Power · 2 minConfidence in God’s absolute control is the source and power of radical obedience to the call of God.
- Life Hangs on the Word of God · 3 minThe Bible is no empty word. It is your very life — the foundation and kindling of your joy!
