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Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.

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Things That Really Matter

Date:
December 7, 2024

Read 2 Timothy 4:9-13

If your found yourself near the end of your days, close to death, who or what would you most want by your side? That’s a compelling question, isn’t it? I know that as I grow older, much that I once attended to and perhaps even worried over through the years means very little now that I’m in my eighth decade. In those times of rare but necessary re-evaluation, what’s really important comes into clearer focus.

The aging apostle, likely nearing his seventh decade of life, wrote these meaningful words to Timothy, his younger apprentice:

The Case against Vanilla

Date:
December 4, 2024

Read Psalm 33:1-3

I cannot imagine anything more boring and less desirable than being poured into the mould of predictability. Few things interest me less than the routine, the expected, the status quo. A fresh run at life by an untried route will get my vote every time. Stay open-minded for a moment, and I’ll try to show you why.

Staying Alert

Date:
December 3, 2024

Read Mark 12:29-30

Your mind is a muscle. It needs to be stretched to stay sharp. It needs to be prodded and pushed to perform. Let it get idle and lazy on you, and that muscle will become a pitiful mass of flab in a brief period of time.

How can you stretch your mind? What are some good mental exercises that will keep the cobwebs away? Here’s how Jesus said it:

Removing Sin

Date:
December 2, 2024

Read Romans 2:1-4

Ever feel worn out by the spinning of your wheels in the muck of sin? Are you fatigued from fighting the battle against your dark nature? Do you sometimes feel like throwing up your hands and surrendering to the constant barrage of spiritual attacks that attempt to lure you away from a life of holiness and devotion?

God’s Control

Date:
December 1, 2024

Read Daniel 4:35

Dawson Trotman, founder of the Navigators, an organization discipling and mentoring ministry leaders around the world, drowned while saving a swimmer from certain death. Eyewitnesses tell of the tears and helpless disbelief in the faces of those who now looked out across the deep blue water of Schroon Lake. Everyone’s face except one—Lila Trotman. Dawson’s widow. As she arrived a close friend shouted, “Oh, Lila, he’s gone. Dawson’s gone!” She replied in calm assurance the words of Psalm 115:3:

Our God is in the heavens,

Forever Discontented

Date:
November 30, 2024

Read Luke 12:17-21

Practically speaking, greed is an inordinate desire for more, an excessive, unsatisfied hunger to possess. Like an untamed beast, greed grasps, claws, reaches, clutches, and clings—stubbornly refusing to surrender. The word enough is not in this beast’s vocabulary.

Stuck in the Past

Date:
November 29, 2024

Read Hebrews 4:15-16

Perhaps you're fighting an inner battle with a ghost from the past. The spectre of a previous hurt haunts your mind and steals your peace.

Before you surrender your case as hopeless, consider the liberating evidence of freedom offered in the Bible. Take an honest look at men and women whom God used despite their past regrets.

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