Category: Daily Devotion by Max Lucado
Daily Devotion by Max Lucado
Hope We Cannot Resist
In a concentration camp, a guard announced a shovel was missing. Screaming at the men, he kept insisting someone had stolen it. He shouldered his rifle, ready to kill one
Because We have Been Given Grace
Forgiveness is not excusing, nor is it pretending. To forgive is to move on, not to think about the offense anymore. You don’t excuse him, endorse her, or embrace them.
Seeing with Different Eyes
See your enemies not as failures, but as God’s projects.
God occupies the only seat on the supreme court of heaven. He wears the robe and refuses to share the
Make God Your Refuge
He has a price on his head, no place to lay his head, but somehow he keeps his head. He turns his focus to God and finds refuge.
Refuge is
The Purpose of the Church
The purpose of the church is to provide bread and swords. To the spiritually hungry, the church offers bread; it offers nourishment. To the fugitive, the church offers swords—weapons of
Draw Close to the Savior
Linger too long in the stench of your hurt, and you’ll smell like the toxin you despise! I spent too much of a summer sludging through sludge. Oil field work
A True Friend
Proverbs 18:24 says, “There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” David found such a friend in the son of Saul. Oh to have a friend like Jonathan.
Your Father Knows Your Heart
1 Samuel 16:7 says, “Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” Those words were written for misfits and outcasts. God uses them all. Moses
Focus on God
God called David a “man after his own heart.” One might read his story and wonder what God saw in him. He fell as often as he stood. He stared
