March 2024

Daily Devotional for Friday, March 22 Draw Nigh to God and Repent “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness,” James 4:8, […]

Daily Devotional for Thursday, March 21 Submit to God and Resist the Devil “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you,” James 4:7.   The final eruption of Mount Saint Helens in May of 1980 was not a sudden event. For two months prior to the massive blast, earthquakes

Daily Devotional for Wednesday, March 20 Humble Yourself “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up,” James 4:10.   It is much easier to humble yourself than to have others humble you. A local library hosted a yearly dinner banquet to honor patrons who had made donations to the

Daily Devotional for Tuesday, March 19 The Fruit of Sin “But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin,” James 4:16, 17.   There is a saying, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” That

Daily Devotional for Monday, March 18 The Root of Sin “From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?” James 4:1.   One of the largest freshwater turtles is the alligator snapping turtle. Found primarily in the southeastern United States, these massive turtles

Daily Devotional for Sunday, March 17 Instructions for the Tongue “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace,” James 3:17,

Daily Devotional for Saturday, March 16 Inconsistency of the Tongue “Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh,” James 3:12.   Warren Wiersbe used the following illustration: “A man at work one day, a professing Christian, got angry and turned

Daily Devotional for Friday, March 15 Incorrigibility of the Tongue “For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,” James 3:7, 8.