Solid Joys Daily Devotional
A short and substantive daily devotional to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year.
Episodes
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.
What Makes God Proud
Open your eyes to the better country, the city of God that he has prepared for us, and let yourself desire it with all your heart. God will not be ashamed to be called your God.
Faith for the Impossible
Faith glorifies God because it is a future-oriented confidence in God’s integrity and power and wisdom to follow through on all his promises.
Who Are the Children of Abraham?
We don’t become heirs of Abraham’s promises by working for God but by being confident that God works for us.
The Faith That Magnifies Grace
Why does faith not nullify the grace of God? Because faith calls all attention to grace and magnifies it, rather than nullifies it.
The Gain of Serving God
The worship of daily obedience is not at bottom a burdensome giving to God, but a joyful getting from God. That is the true service that God demands.
Something to Boast About
Faith nullifies boasting and glorifies grace. Wherever faith looks, it sees grace behind every praiseworthy act. So it cannot boast, except in the Lord.
When God Goes Against His Will
God has wise and holy purposes when he does not answer our prayers as we want. Trust him. He knows what he is doing.
The Payout for Patience
The sovereign grace of God can turn the unplanned place and the unplanned pace into the happiest ending imaginable.
Authentic vs. Phony Faith
We can know that our sins are taken away and that we will be safe in the judgment, if we trust Christ in such a way that it makes us eager for his coming.
Strength to Wait with Patience
Patience is indeed a fruit of the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit empowers us (with all his fruit) through hearing with faith.
God’s Design in Detours
What feels to us like a waste is what God plans. He works through the most hopeless circumstances.
The Bedrock of Your Assurance
Our election is unconditional in the strictest sense. Neither our faith nor our obedience is the basis of it. It is free and utterly undeserved.
Is Christ Worth It?
When we sit down to calculate the cost of following Jesus — when we weigh the “worst” and the “best” — he is worth it. Abundantly worth it.
Jesus Knows His Sheep
Jesus knows all his sheep by name; that is, he knows them individually and intimately.
God Works for You
God is so eager to work for us that he goes around looking for more work to do for people who will trust him.
How to Hate Your Life
When you love Christ, you don’t take much thought for your life in this world. Rather, you live for the glory of God’s grace.
What Makes Jesus Rejoice
What makes the whole Trinity rejoice together? The free, electing love of God to hide the true spiritual identity of Christ from the intellectual elite and to reveal it to babes.
The Light Beyond the Light
Don’t replace Christ this summer with trifles. Seek the things that are above. Flight from Christ into Christless leisure makes the soul parched.
Five Digital Dangers
Consider these five digital dangers and some accompanying resolutions to avoid and redeem them.
The Freest Love
God’s electing love is absolutely free. It is the gracious overflow of his boundless happiness guided by his infinite wisdom.
What Is Meekness?
Trust God. Commit your way to him. Roll onto him your anxieties, frustrations, and plans — indeed, your very life.
Ideas Have Consequences
Hope and love do not come from nowhere. They grow out of ideas — views of reality — revealed in the Scriptures.
At the Bottom of It All
How did you come to be a Christian? Join Charles Spurgeon and joyfully confess, “I ascribe my change wholly to God!”
Why We Should Love Our Enemies
When God becomes our treasure, we treat our adversaries out of our own fullness with the all-satisfying glory of God.
Go on to the Meal
You have heard echoes of God’s glory everywhere; tune your heart to the original music. The best place to get your heart tuned is at the cross of Jesus Christ.
A People for His Name
God is pursuing with omnipotent delight a worldwide purpose of gathering a people for his name from every tribe and language and nation.
What It Means to Love God
This is the essence of what it means to love God: to be satisfied in him — not just his gifts, but God himself, as the glorious person that he is.
Pleased with His Precepts
Faith overcomes our inborn hostility to God and his will, and frees us to keep his commandments.
Don’t Serve God
God will gladly receive anything from us that shows our dependence and his all-sufficiency. Therefore, we can gladly cast all our anxieties on him.
Truer Knowledge Brings Greater Joy
The only joy that reflects the worth of God and overflows in God-glorifying love is rooted in true knowledge of God.
Seven Sources of Joy
Joy comes from the Holy Spirit, not our own efforts or imagination or family upbringing. Therefore, the call to joy is a call to earnest prayer.
A Dangerous Motive
Gratitude looks back to past grace received and feels thankful. Faith looks forward to future grace promised and feels hopeful.
How to Ask Forgiveness
Praying for forgiveness should be based not only on an appeal to God’s mercy, but also on an appeal to his justice in crediting the worth of his Son’s obedience.
God Demonstrates His Love
The goal of everything God takes us through is hope. He wants us to feel unwaveringly hopeful through all tribulations. He wants us to know he loves us.
Dirty Rags No More
God requires good works not as the ground of our justification (which is the righteousness of Christ alone), but as an evidence of it.
Fifteen Tactics for Joy
In this life of sin and pain, how shall we fight for joy? Here are fifteen ways.
The Day Is at Hand
The age of sin and misery and death is almost spent. The day of righteousness and peace and total joy is dawning.
The Great Exchange
Our sins are laid on Christ and his righteousness is laid on us. That is the great exchange — and it becomes ours not by works but by faith.
Children of a Singing God
It could not be otherwise but that Christianity be a singing faith. The founder sang. We are a singing people because we are the children of a singing God.
You Were Made for God
When we speak of being a God-centered people, remember, this is because we are joining God in his God-centeredness.
Paul’s Salvation Was for You
The point of Paul’s conversion happening the way it did is to make Christ’s incredible patience vivid for you.
The Liberating Power of Forgiveness
When we live by faith, rooted in God’s forgiveness, we are freed from the lingering, paralyzing effects even of shame we deserve to feel.
Seek Your City’s Good
Christians care about all suffering — especially eternal suffering. That’s the greatest danger every city faces.
Five Reasons to Be Fearless
Not being afraid shows that you treasure God as your generous Shepherd, Father, and King.
The Key to Radical Love
The key to joy is faith in God’s future grace — that is, being satisfied in all that God promises to be for us.
Afraid to Stray
Cherish the goodness of the Lord, fear straying from him, flee from every sin, and take refuge in him.
A Future for Failures
This is the gospel: Even though you have sinned greatly, nevertheless there is a future and a hope. Fear not!
God, Touch Our Hearts
The One with infinite power in the universe reaches down to personally touch and transform us.
Embracing Jesus
Faith in Christ is not just assenting to what God is for us, but also embracing all that he is for us in Christ.
Mercy for Today
We won’t bear tomorrow’s load on today’s resources. Today’s mercies are for today’s troubles. Tomorrow’s mercies are for tomorrow’s troubles.
Don’t Be Like the Mule
Come to God in prayer, to confess your sins, and to accept, as needy little farmyard chicks, the direction of God into the barn of his protection and provision.
Pray for His Fame
God delights in having his name known and honored. The first and most important prayer that can be prayed is, “Hallowed be your name.”
Talk to Your Tears
Sheer sowing produces reaping. You must remember this, even when your tears tempt you to give up.
You Cannot Lose in the End
Trust Christ, no matter what. Go with him, no matter where. You cannot lose in the end.
The Great King’s Wine
When you are cast into the cellars of affliction, remember that the great King keeps his best wine there.
What Is Well-Placed Shame?
The biblical criterion for misplaced shame and for well-placed shame is radically God-centered.
Talk to God, Not Just About Him
It is good not to talk very long about God without talking to God. Frequently interrupt your talking about God by talking to God.
Make Satan Know His Defeat
When Christ died and rose again, Satan was defeated. Jesus struck the decisive blow at Calvary.
What It Means to Pray for Your Enemy
Don’t just do good things for your enemies. Desire their best, and express those desires in prayer, even when they’re nowhere around.
Two Ways to Remember Jesus
Jesus is not just alive from the dead, but he is alive as the King who will reign forever — of his kingdom there will be no end.
The Books at the Judgment
Salvation is secured for all who are written in the book of life, not because of their deeds, but because Christ was slain for them.
God Strengthens Us Through Others
Sometimes God will strengthen your faith directly. But most of the time, he does so through another person.
How to Respond When You Falter
O God, help us to feel worse about our own shortfalls than the failure of others.
Better Than Everest
If you live inside the massive promise of Romans 8:28, your life is more solid and stable than Mount Everest.
Two of Our Deepest Needs
In the Father, you are under God’s care and protection. In the Son, you are under God’s charge and authority.
What Binds the Hands of Love?
Only one thing satisfies the heart whose treasure is in heaven: doing the works of heaven. And heaven is a world of love!
If He Calls, He Keeps
Our perseverance doesn’t rest decisively on the reliability of our own resolve. It rests decisively on God’s work to keep us trusting him.
As Sure as God’s Love for His Son
God will not spare any effort to give you all that Christ died to purchase — all things, all good, and all bad working for your good.
When Everyone Deserts You
When others abandon you, strengthen your heart with God’s inexorable oath: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
10 Results of the Resurrection
Because Christ rose from the grave, God’s children are forgiven. No one can successfully bring a charge against those who are in Christ.
How to Delight in God’s Word
Never reduce Christianity to a matter of demands and resolutions and willpower. It is a matter of what we love, what we delight in, what tastes good to us.
Forever Satisfied
When we trust Jesus, his presence and promise is so satisfying that we are not dominated by the alluring pleasures of sin.
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