Monday, July 6, 2026

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“He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways” (Psalm 91:11).
“Depart from Me … into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41).
“His angels, that excel in strength, that do His commandments” (Psalm 103:20).
Angels are mentioned many times in the Bible, yet many people do not understand exactly who they are. It is clear from the Word of God that they are spirit beings, who were created before man. We cannot normally see them, although they can, if necessary, appear as men and women with normal bodies. They can also appear very strong and frightening, as the angels did at the tomb of the Lord Jesus, after He had risen from the dead. The Bible tells us that they are “greater in power and might” than man (2 Peter 2:11).
They are God’s servants, who do what He tells them to do. From our verses today we see that there are good angels and bad angels. Good angels are those who never rebelled against God, and who continue to serve Him faithfully. In the Old Testament they acted as messengers for the Lord, as well as keeping order in this world, and preventing even whole nations and governments from going against the will of God. They continue to do this today.
The bad angels, or fallen angels, are those who, along with Satan, rebelled against God, wanting to be gods themselves. Some of those fallen angels sinned so seriously that God has imprisoned them until the day of judgment. You can read about these angels in 2 Peter 2:4, and in Jude, verse 6. But others of these fallen angels are free to go about, and since they are spirits, they move about in the air, unseen by us. But they are very real, and are often called devils in the KJV Bible. The word should properly be translated demons, for there is only one devil, that is, Satan. These fallen angels, or demons, are the servants of Satan, and go about making as much trouble as possible.
You have read in the Bible about people being possessed of demons, and this is still happening today. Sometimes these demons actually live inside people, and take over their lives. They tell them what to do, and how to act. It is an awful thing to have this happen to someone, but it does not happen to real Christians. It happens only to those who choose to involve themselves with demons, and then eventually the demons get control of them.
             
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Sunday, July 5, 2026

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“And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so he had appointed, minding himself to go afoot [to walk]” (Acts 20:13).
Today’s verse has an interesting detail recorded in Scripture that tells us something about Paul — another example of what we were talking about yesterday.
It is a nice idea to find yourself a Bible atlas and keep it handy when you are reading. Then you can look up places like Assos and Troas. If you read the story that precedes our verse, you’ll remember that this was the occasion when Paul preached all night in Troas and a young man named Eutychus fell asleep and fell out of the window. It says that Paul continued preaching till the break of day.
Then he, and the disciples with him, were going to get on a ship and sail to the next place. But … . we are told that Paul decided to walk to the next city and the others would sail there, and pick him up. So Paul loved to hike and walk! And maybe too, he liked some time alone to “recharge” before he was to preach again! This is where your Bible atlas would come in handy as you would find that this was a hike of 20 miles (or about 32 kilometers). This would have been hiked wearing sandals and was likely over rough paths.
It is also nice to have a Bible dictionary, as the Bible often refers to distances and measures that we do not use today. With the two walking away from Jerusalem in Luke 24, we are told that they walked threescore furlongs. What is a score and what is a furlong? See if you can find out.
In Acts 27:28 we find the sailors measuring and finding the depth of the ocean twenty fathoms, and then fifteen fathoms. What is a fathom? And then we read about shekels and cubits. The Lord has put all these details in His Word for us, and you will find some interesting things if you search them out.
             
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Saturday, July 4, 2026

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“For whatsoever things were written aforetime [in the Old Testament] were written for our learning” (Romans 15:4).
As we know from the Bible and the timelines set out in it, the creation of man on the earth took place about 6000 years ago. We measure, or “record” time in B.C. and A.D. The letters B.C. stand for “Before Christ” and A.D. stands for Anno Domini (which is Latin, and means “in the year of our Lord”). So at the moment of writing this we are in the year 2022 A.D. There were 4000 years of man’s history in the world before the Lord Jesus was born into this world.
Of course, during the very early years, man did not write down his own history. For one thing, he had no written language in which to put it down, or paper and ink (or a laptop!). Although men may have used a written language before the flood of Noah, it is doubtful if any ancient writings that have been discovered date from before the flood. But writings since the flood are available to us, dating back to shortly after the flood took place. (The flood took place about 2350 B.C.) Early writings were scratched on clay or stone tablets with tools, but when man began to keep records, it was mostly accounts of battles, the numbers in armies, and the names of captains and kings.
But then, the Lord directed Moses by inspiration to write the first five books of the Bible. And we know he wrote by inspiration, as Moses was not alive to see creation, or to have met Abraham and Jacob or the other people we know so well from the stories in Genesis. And the amazing thing about these stories is that the people in them are so alive! We can really get to know them. If you like to picture things as you read them, no doubt you have a mental image of Abraham’s tent pitched out in a vast plain. He welcomed the angels there and gave them a good meal. And then we hear Sarah laugh when she hears she is going to have a child in her old age. Do you know that that is the first time, in any of the ancient writings, that anyone is mentioned as laughing? God is a God of details! His people whom He loved very much are shown to us in what we could call “3D.” That is, in three dimensions, not just “flat” accounts of names and numbers. And we can get to know them too, and learn very good lessons from their lives. They were people with struggles and problems, just as we have.
Think of many of your favorite people in the Bible stories you know. You know what Moses’ personality was like. He was shy, and wanted his brother Aaron to go with him to talk to Pharaoh. David was courageous, and musical. Ruth was tender-hearted and loving (and hard working!). Stop and think a little about this as you have your daily reading.
             
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Friday, July 3, 2026

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“There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed [hated] evil” (Job 1:1).
The book of Job is another somewhat difficult book for young people to read. Most of the book is taken up with how Job was allowed to become very sick with boils all over his body, and how his three friends came and visited him. His friends really wanted to help, but they assumed that Job was a bad man, and that God had allowed this sickness to punish him. This was not true, as we see from our verse for today. Job was a very good man, but his trouble was that he thought quite highly of himself, and did not realize that any goodness in him was only because of the grace of God. It was not because of his own efforts.
However, Job had something to learn, and after Job’s friends had finished saying quite a bit, a younger man named Elihu comes into the picture, and he said the right thing to Job. Eventually Job learned what the Lord wanted to teach him, and his friends learned an important lesson too. They learned not to make wrong accusations when they really did not understand at all what God was doing.
You and I can learn much from Job’s experience. Even as Christians, we can think we are behaving rather well, instead of realizing that it is only because we have a new life in Christ that we are able to live to please the Lord. Job also had to learn that any goodness that was in him was because of the grace of God, and not because he was naturally a good man. Being proud of our goodness is wrong, for any goodness in us comes from God.
Job is one of the oldest books in the Bible, and we are not even totally sure who wrote it. Job probably lived sometime after the flood, perhaps about the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We do not know much about his family background, nor do we hear anything of him later in the Bible, except a brief comment about this patience in James 5:11. However, the lesson that Job’s life teaches us is most important, so do not forget to read the book of Job.
             
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Thursday, July 2, 2026

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“And the king [Nebuchadnezzar] spake unto Ashpenaz … that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes; children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science … now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel … ” (Daniel 1:3-4, 6).
We have all heard of Daniel in the lions’ den, and how the Lord miraculously prevented the lions from harming him. However, there is much more in the book of Daniel than this story. Daniel and his friends were taken captive from the land of Israel during the first attack by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in 606 B.C. But Nebuchadnezzar was a smart king; he did not destroy everybody whom he conquered. He realized that there were some clever people in Israel, and he wanted them to come to Babylon and serve him. He saw young men like Daniel who were well educated, physically fit, and able to be a help in his kingdom.
When you read the book of Daniel, you will find Daniel first of all as a young man, and his friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Together they had to adjust to a new life in Babylon, learn a new language, and serve a foreign king. But they all accepted what the Lord had allowed, and at the same time, they were faithful to the true God whom they had known in Israel.
However, there is more in the book of Daniel than simply how Daniel and his friends survived and did well in captivity. The book of Daniel covers more than 70 years, and when Daniel ends up being thrown into the lions’ den, he must have been between 80 and 90 years of age. Perhaps you have not realized that before. He survived the 70 years of the captivity that were prophesied by Jeremiah, and then served even during the reign of a new nation — the Medes and Persians.
But then we come to the hard parts of Daniel. In the later chapters, the Lord gave Daniel many prophecies about the future. Some of these have already been fulfilled, particularly what we read in chapter 11. But then there are other prophecies that have not yet been fulfilled, and will not be completed until after the Lord comes and takes us home to heaven. You may find this a bit complicated, but again, it is good to read it. If you do not understand, perhaps you can ask someone older to help you.
Daniel is a good example for us, as he was faithful to the Lord when everything seemed to be “falling apart.” Yet he honored the Lord, and the Lord honored him. He was called by the Lord, “O man greatly beloved” (Daniel 10:19). Could the Lord say that about you and me, because we were faithful to him in a time of real problems?
             
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Wednesday, July 1, 2026

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“Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God” (Ezekiel 1:1).
Ezekiel is another difficult book in the Bible, and one which Christians sometimes do not bother to read because it is hard to understand. However, like the book of Jeremiah, it has some wonderful things in it. If you are a person who likes dates, you will be interested to know that the book begins in “the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,” which was about 595 B.C.
Ezekiel, unlike many of the other prophets, was taken captive by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar, and was taken to Babylon. The river Chebar that is mentioned was not likely an actual river, but rather a canal made by Nebuchadnezzar, which connected the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Some of the Jews were probably employed in digging this canal, and that is how Ezekiel found himself beside it. But then a wonderful thing happened; the Lord opened the heavens, and Ezekiel was given visions from the Lord. Like Jeremiah, he prophesied against Israel for all the sins they had committed, yet He also speaks of wonderful blessing later, when they will return to the Lord.
There are a number of special things that the Lord gave Ezekiel to tell us. For example, in chapter 28, we have a description of the pride of the king of Tyrus in verses 11-19. But this is also an account of the fall of Satan, which must have occurred even before the Garden of Eden was made.
Also, in chapters 38 and 39, we have the future of Russia brought before us, and how they will be completely defeated by the Lord when they try to attack Israel in a coming day. We do not find this anywhere else in the Bible.
At the end of the book, in chapters 40-48, there is a description of the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem in the millennium. It is pretty complicated, and even the best minds among Christians sometimes have trouble understanding how it will look. But it is very interesting to read. As with the book of Jeremiah, I would encourage you to read Ezekiel, even if you cannot understand it all. You will get something from it, and be helped by reading it.
             
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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

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“The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign” (Jeremiah 1:1-2).
When we read the Bible, we sometimes come to a book that is more difficult for us to understand. The books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel are like that, and sometimes people hesitate to read them because they cannot understand everything. However, it is good to read every part of the Word of God, for we will always get something from it. Also we become familiar with it, and then later on, as we get older, we learn more of what it means. The Word of God has so much in it that no matter how many times we read it, we never learn everything that is there. But it is good to become familiar with all of it when we are young.
Jeremiah was evidently the son of a priest named Hilkiah. This was probably the same Hilkiah who was helping to clean up the temple of the Lord during King Josiah’s reign, and found the book of the law. The previous kings had neglected the law of God, and the book of the law had been lost in all the rubbish that had collected in the temple. So Jeremiah came from a godly family.
The Lord wanted Jeremiah to prophesy for Him, and called him to do it. But Jeremiah seems to have been a shy type of person and did not really want this responsibility. However, he obeyed the Lord’s call, and prophesied for many years. This included part of Josiah’s reign, then during the reigns of several kings after him, and finally after Judah had been taken captive by king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
Jeremiah did not have an easy life, for after Josiah was killed in battle, the kings that followed him were not godly men. Jeremiah was persecuted for what he said, for he had to tell the people that judgment was coming upon them. He was put in prison several times, and threatened with death. However, in his book there are some wonderful prophecies too, for some of what he said concerns the future blessing of Israel in the millennium, after the Lord takes us home to be with Him. He also prophesied that the captivity in Babylon would last exactly seventy years, and so it happened.
So go ahead and read Jeremiah’s book, even if you do not understand all of it. You will always learn something from it.
             
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Monday, June 29, 2026

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“And Jesus … said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3).
How old are you now? Perhaps some of you reading this devotional are ten years old, but you are probably wishing you were twelve! Or maybe some of you are twelve, and you wish you were thirteen, so that you can be a teenager. But if you are fourteen or fifteen, maybe you cannot wait until you are sixteen, and can get a driver’s license. Then, as we get older, our wishes go the other way. People who are thirty wish they were twenty-one again, and people who are seventy remember the energy and strength they had when they were forty, and wish they were younger again. We never seem to be happy with our age! Here in our verse for today, however, the Lord Jesus is telling us that we need to become as little children, in order to enter into the kingdom of heaven. What does He mean?
The Lord Jesus does not mean that we can actually become little children again. He knows that this would be impossible for us. What He is talking about is out attitude toward spiritual things, and indeed, toward everything. When we were little children, we trusted what people said to us, and readily believed them. All little children are like this, unless someone betrays that trust by pretending to be friendly and then does something mean to them. Then they quickly learn to beware of people they do not know. But little children naturally trust other people.
When we come to the Lord Jesus, we need to trust what He says, and believe on Him. Even after we are saved, we should read the Bible, trust what it says, and obey it. That is the way to be a happy Christian, because obedience and happiness go together.
Sadly, many adults have seen how the world deceives them, and then they begin to think that God is deceiving them as well. Satan did this to Eve in the Garden of Eden, and persuaded her that God was not giving her the very best. She listened to Satan, and together she and Adam brought sin into this world. But the Lord is worthy of our trust, for He loves us, and always wants and does the very best for us.
             
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Sunday, June 28, 2026

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“And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, and Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto Him of their substance” (Luke 8:2-3).
Have you ever wondered how the Lord Jesus was looked after as He walked so many miles about the land of Israel during His lifetime down here? Where did He get the money to send the disciples into the town to buy food (John 4:8)? Who do you think might have woven Him that wonderful robe for which the soldiers cast lots at the time of the crucifixion?
After the temptation time in the wilderness, when He had not eaten anything for 40 days, it tells us that “angels ministered to Him” (Matthew 4:11). But most often we find various women looking after His daily needs. When He raised Simon Peter’s mother-in-law back to health, it tells us that “she arose and ministered unto them” (Matthew 8:15). She had been near death a few minutes before! But how thankful she must have been, and she did what she was likely accustomed to doing.
The Lord received many gifts, large and small. Mary gave Him her box of very precious ointment she had been saving for a special occasion. Joseph of Arimathea gave a tomb for His burial. But, as we know, many others provided just a drink, or a basin of water to wash His dusty feet.
Our verse today is a wonderful example to us. These thankful people wanted to do something in return for His gifts of healing and His comforting words. Are we thankful enough for His marvelous gift to us, that we will turn around and serve the Lord Jesus in some small way? And what can we do to “minister to Him” in the 21st century? He is no longer here on the earth, but there are many acts of kindness we can do daily. A kind word, perhaps to an elderly person in a store. A note to a friend who is discouraged. A small gift, perhaps hand-made like the Lord’s robe, given in thoughtfulness. Matthew 25:40 tells us, “Inasmuch [just as] ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”
             
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Saturday, June 27, 2026

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“We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:52).
Perhaps you have read this verse before, but have you ever wondered how long the twinkling of an eye is? It is a very short time. It is certainly less than half a second, and some have calculated it to be as short as 1/10th of a second. It is amazing to think that the Lord’s coming for us will take place that quickly. During this short time, the dead in Christ will rise first, and will receive their glorified bodies. Then we who are alive will be changed, meaning that we too will suddenly have glorified bodies. We will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. These details are given to us in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. It is a wonderful prospect to which we can look forward, and it may happen at any moment.
It is the same mighty power that raised the Lord Jesus from the dead that will raise from the dead all those who have died in Christ. Many of them have been dead for thousands of years, and their bodies have decayed — gone back to dust, as God had said. Some bodies have been buried at sea, when people died while on a ship. Others have been burned, but the Lord knows where each one is. He is able to raise them from the dead, to give them bodies of glory, and take them up with Him, to be with Him forever.
In heaven we will all have glorified bodies that will be absolutely perfect — none of the effects of sin will be seen in them. There will be no one with wrinkles, or scars, or grey hair. There will be no one who limps, or who has to use a wheelchair. No one will be missing a leg, or an arm.
But there will be One there who will have marks on His body that are there because He bore the punishment for our sins. The Lord Jesus will have the nail prints in His hands, and the spear mark in His side, to remind us for all eternity that He suffered for us. The Bible never calls them scars, but rather wounds. Why is that? It is because a scar is an old wound that has healed, but a wound is fresh — something that has happened recently. The marks in the Lord’s body will always be wounds, so that we do not forget.
             
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