Solid Joys Daily Devotional
A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.
Episodes
God Is Not an Idolater
God is love precisely because he relentlessly pursues the praises of his name in the hearts of his people.
Pleased to Praise
If God loves us enough to make our joy full, he must not only give us himself; he must also win from us the praise of our hearts.
The Unshakably Happy God
God’s pursuit of praise from us and our pursuit of pleasure in him are the same pursuit.
Jesus Is Who You’re Looking For
The Bible is a window that opens onto the sunrise glory of the risen Christ.
What the Resurrection Means for Us
Christ’s resurrection is God’s declaration that we cannot work our way to glory, but that he intends to do the impossible to get us there.
Hope to Obey Hard Commands
You will always be better off to obey than to disobey Jesus, even if that obedience costs you your life.
What It Means to Bless the Lord
Authentic speaking about God’s goodness and greatness must come from the soul. Blessing God with the mouth without the soul would be hypocrisy.
Why You Give In to Sexual Sin
If we are to be sexually pure, God must have the supreme place in our feelings and thoughts.
What We Were Made For
All the other gifts of the gospel — forgiveness, justification, propitiation, eternal life — exist to make fellowship with God possible.
God Forgives and Is Still Just
The death of the Son of God is outrageous enough, and the glory of God that it upholds is great enough, that God is vindicated to forgive our sins.
Three Examples of How Faith Fulfills Good Resolves
The power of God to fulfill your resolves will come to you as you trust in the future grace of his promises.
My Soul Thirsts for God
When we see the face of Christ, we see the face of God. And we see the glory of his face when we hear the story of the gospel of his death and resurrection.
The Different Tenses of Grace
Grace is not only God’s disposition to do good for us when we don’t deserve it. It is also a power that makes good things happen in us.
Have Mercy on Me, O God
We know more of the mystery of our redemption than David did. We know Christ. But we lay hold of the mercy in the same way he did.
The End of the Gospel
The gospel is the good news that God bought for us the everlasting enjoyment of God.
Ruler of All Nature
Stand in awe and be at peace, knowing that no natural event is outside of God’s wise and good purposes, and perfect control.
The Point of Creation
God made humans in his image so that the world would be filled with reflectors of God. Images of God. So that nobody would miss the point of creation.
Jesus Bought Your Endurance
God is totally committed to the perseverance and eternal security of his blood-bought children.
10 Things “Yahweh” Means
Yahweh is a proper name (like Peter) built out of the word for “I am.” It teaches us that God absolutely is.
As Secure as God Is Faithful
Between eternity past in God’s predestination, and eternity future in God’s glorification, none is lost.
Why You Have a Body
God will honor the work of his Son by raising our bodies from the dead, and we will use our bodies to glorify him forever.
Afraid of Death No More
God has justified us. There is only future grace in front of us. Satan cannot overturn that decree.
Our Weakness Reveals His Worth
Sometimes God makes seemingly strong people weaker so that his divine power will be the more evident.
Suffering That Crushes Faith
Suffering must not drive you from God. Instead, it should drive you from everything but God.
Suffering That Strengthens Faith
Faith is like muscle tissue: if you stress it to the limit, it gets stronger, not weaker. When your faith is tested, the result is greater capacity to endure.
God’s Plan for Martyrs
Our sovereign God says there is an appointed number of martyrs. They have a special role to play in planting and empowering the church.
Why We Don’t Lose Heart
Strengthen your heart and renew your courage by fixing your gaze on the invisible truth you see in the testimony of those who saw Christ face to face.
If You Don’t Fight Lust
If you don’t fight lust with a seriousness that is willing to gouge out your own eye, you will go to hell and suffer forever.
What It Means to Love Money
The heart that loves money is a heart that pins its hopes, and pursues its pleasures, and puts its trust in what human resources can offer.
Satan’s Strategy and Your Defense
The way to thwart the devil is to strengthen the very thing he is trying most to destroy — your faith.
Jesus Keeps His Sheep
Jesus is interceding for us today that our faith may not fail. Our endurance in faith and joy is finally and decisively in the hands of God.
How to Defy Sinful Desire
When God’s word feeds faith’s appetite for God, it weans our hearts away from the deceptive taste of lust.
Preach to Yourself
Trusting God’s future grace comes by hearing the word. Therefore, preaching the word to ourselves is all-important in overcoming spiritual depression.
Models for Combating Discouragement
The Bible is replete with saints struggling with sunken spirits. But God includes such testimonies so that we might use them to fight the unbelief of despondency.
Grace for Every Need
Prayer is the great link of faith between the soul of the saint and the promise of God’s future grace.
His Timing Is Perfect
God promises not merely that we will find grace “to help in time of need,” but that the grace is well-timed by God.
God’s Grace in Spiritual Gifts
Moment by moment, God supplies the strength in which we serve. He does this because the ongoing, inexhaustible supplier of power gets the glory.
The Power to Profess Christ
Whatever added signs and wonders God may show to amplify our witness to Christ, they will come through his grace and power.
Energy for Today’s To-Dos
Believe in the promise that in this day God will be at work in you to will and work for his good pleasure.
We Work by Grace
Paul prayed for grace for the day, trusted that it would come with power, and then acted with all his might.
Ministry — More Important Than Life
You may think you need to save your life in order to do your ministry. On the contrary, how you lose your life may be the capstone of your ministry.
What Moves You to Minister?
Costly acts of love don’t just happen. They are impelled by a new appetite — the appetite of faith for the fullest experience of God’s grace. We want more of God.
Faith Expels Guilt, Greed, and Fear
The glory of Christ is magnified when we are more satisfied with his future grace than we are with the promises of sin.
We Experience the Spirit Through Faith
When we don’t believe all the promises of God, we won’t receive the full measure of the Spirit.
Proud Works vs. Humble Faith
“Works” longs for the joy of being glorified as strong. “Faith” longs for the joy of seeing God glorified as strong.
Six Ways Jesus Fought Depression
When he was in anguish, Jesus rested his soul in the sovereign wisdom of God.
Saving Faith Loves Forgiveness
Faith in God’s forgiveness means savoring the truth that a forgiving God is the most precious reality in the universe.
When Another Christian Hurts You
All the wrongs that have been done against us by believers were avenged in the death of Jesus. Look to the cross of Christ.
How Christ Conquered Bitterness
No one has ever lived who was more worthy of honor than Jesus; and no one has been dishonored more. But he triumphed by entrusting himself to God.
Give God Your Revenge
Your very soul is in danger if you hold on to an attitude of unforgiving bitterness. Leave it to the wrath of God.
When Will I Be Satisfied?
Imagine being able to enjoy what is most enjoyable with unbounded energy and passion forever. That is not our experience now, but it will be one day.
Good News: God Is Happy
It is good news that God is gloriously happy. No one would want to spend eternity with a gloomy, unhappy God.
How Well Do You Know God?
As the source of every good pleasure, God himself pleases fully and finally. It is therefore astonishing how little effort is put into knowing God.
God’s Pleasure to Do You Good
Even if we know that God is good to us, we may believe that his goodness is constrained. But Jesus is at pains to help us not feel that way.
Heaven’s Relief in the Coming Wrath
The unwillingness of others to repent will not hold the saints hostage. Hell cannot blackmail heaven into misery.
The Powerful Root of Practical Love
Faith in God’s promises must be so real that the love it produces proves the reality of the faith.
Enduring When Obeying Hurts
What can sustain the will to die for others, when you are innocent? Jesus banked on love and future joy.
A Hiding Place for the Helpless
The experience of future grace often depends on whether we will take refuge in God, or whether we will run for cover to other shelters.
The Fear That Draws Us In
There is a fear that is slavish and drives us away from God, and there is a fear that is sweet and draws us to God.
The Death Trap Called Covetousness
What’s at stake in fleeing covetousness and fighting for contentment in future grace is eternal life.
I Can Be Content in Every Circumstance
Whenever we sense the slightest rise of covetousness in our hearts, we must turn on it and fight it with all our might using the weapons of faith.
Faith Honors Him Whom It Trusts
God is glorified when the power to be holy comes from humble faith in future grace.
How We Must Fight for Holiness
The fight for good works is a fight to believe in future grace. Therefore, learning to fight for holiness by faith in future grace is supremely important.
The Satisfaction That Defeats Sin
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. Faith embraces God — not just his promised gifts — as our treasure.
Grace Is Pardon — and Power!
Grace is not simply the pardon of our sins; it is the power to press on in obedience. We trust in God’s ever-arriving gracious power to enable us to do what we should.
The Offense of Fearing Man
When we hear God’s promises and trust him with courage, fearing the reproach brought upon God by our unbelief, then he is greatly honored.
How to Plead for Unbelievers
Prayer ascribes to God the right and honor to be the free and sovereign God that he is to choose and to save sinners.
What Kind of Prayer Pleases God?
The prayer of the upright that delights God comes from a heart that at first feels precarious in the presence of God. It trembles at his word.
Serve God with Your Thirst
The Lord is pleased not by those who treat him as a needy watering trough, but as an inexhaustible, all-satisfying spring.
The Honeymoon That Never Ends
With God the honeymoon never ends. He is infinite in power and wisdom and creativity so that there will be no boredom for the next trillion ages of millenniums.
How Much God Wants to Bless You
God’s anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger. He is infinitely energetic with unbounded and unending enthusiasm to do us good.
Who Killed Jesus?
God did not spare his own Son, because it was the only way he could spare us and still be a just and holy God.
Help My Unbelief
Not only are spiritual gifts a work of God’s free grace in our lives, but so also is the very faith with which we use those gifts.
Faith for the Future
In order to live the radical lives Christ calls us to live, we must embrace him as the only one who can truly satisfy our souls.
When Reason Serves Rebellion
Our hearts exploit our minds to justify what our hearts want. Our deepest desires incline our minds to perceive and think in a way that will make our desires look right.
Prayer Is for Sinners
If we recognize our sin, fight it, and cling to the cross of Christ as our hope, then God will hear us and answer our prayers.
Glorify God in Your Body
Worship is all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the infinite worth of God.
We Live by Faith
The faith that justifies and the faith that sanctifies are not two different kinds of faith.
All Hostile to God
The best news in all the world is that our alienation from God is ended. We have been reconciled to the Judge of the universe.
Dependable in the Mundane
Be devoted to glorifying the dependability of God. Lives of faith are the great mirror of his faithful love and provision.
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