Daily Devotional

May — Flexibility Without Compromise Day 136 — 16 May When They Watch You and Change Their Mind “Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.” — 1 Peter 2:12 (ESV) The early

May — Flexibility Without Compromise Day 135 — 15 May The Coin with Two Faces “And He said to them, ‘Whose image and inscription is this?’ They said to Him, ‘Caesar’s.’ And He said to them, ‘Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.’” — Matthew

May — Flexibility Without Compromise Day 134 — 14 May Free From All, Servant to All “For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more.” — 1 Corinthians 9:19 (NKJV) She sat in her car for a few minutes after pulling into

May — Flexibility Without Compromise Day 133 — 13 May The Wound That Heals “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” — Proverbs 27:6 (KJV) …and perhaps the most counterintuitive dimension of flexibility without compromise is the one that requires you to speak a truth the person

May — Flexibility Without Compromise Day 132 — 12 May The Life That Silences the Critic “Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to

May — Flexibility Without Compromise Day 131 — 11 May As Far As It Depends on You “Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men. If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.” — Romans 12:17–18 (NASB) Peace

May — Flexibility Without Compromise Day 130 — 10 May Living Between the Opposites “through glory and dishonour, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing,

May — Flexibility Without Compromise Day 129 — 9 May The Line He Drew in Babylon “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not

May — Flexibility Without Compromise Day 128 — 8 May Free Enough to Serve “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.” — Galatians 5:13 (KJV) What is freedom for? The question sounds simple, yet the answer determines whether

May — Flexibility Without Compromise Day 127 — 7 May Wisdom Knows Which Way to Bend “But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” — James 3:17 (ESV) The argument had been building for weeks. Two neighbours on the same