Daily Devotional

Where Value Is Earned Day 196 – 15 July Remember Egypt “Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.” (Leviticus 19:36, KJV) The Sting You Never Forget Most of us can name the moment

Where Value Is Earned Day 195 – 14 July Two Weights “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.” (Deuteronomy 25:13, NKJV) When They Do It, and When I Do It We are all fluent in a certain double language, and most of us speak it without noticing. When

Where Value Is Earned Day 194 – 13 July A Whole Stone “A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.” (Proverbs 11:1, ESV) Nobody Would Ever Know A particular kind of moment tests a person more searchingly than any crisis. It arrives without drama, on an ordinary

Where Value Is Earned Day 193 – 12 July Seen All Along “…knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.” (Ephesians 6:9, ESV) The Hour That Was Never Unwatched For a whole week now we have leaned on a single idea, holding

Where Value Is Earned Day 192 – 11 July The King’s Own “Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ.” (Ephesians 6:5, ESV) The Lowest Word in the Language In the Roman world there was scarcely a lower thing to be than a slave. Under law

Where Value Is Earned Day 191 – 10 July Nothing Is Lost “knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.” (Ephesians 6:8, ESV) When Good Work Seems to Vanish By Friday, a certain low discouragement can settle in. You gave the week

Where Value Is Earned Day 190 – 9 July Already His Will “as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.” (Ephesians 6:6, NKJV) Straining for the Grand Assignment A great many sincere people spend years straining to hear the will of God, listening hard for something grand and unmistakable: a dramatic

Where Value Is Earned Day 189 – 8 July The Unmixed Heart “with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.” (Ephesians 6:5, KJV) The Cost of a Divided Heart A divided heart is an exhausting thing to run. It holds a dozen aims in the air at once, works out the

Where Value Is Earned Day 188 – 7 July Warmth in the Work “With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men.” (Ephesians 6:7, NASB) What Became of “Good Will” Few phrases have been worn as smooth as “good will.” In modern speech it survives mostly as an accountant’s term, the

Where Value Is Earned Day 187 – 6 July When No One Looks “not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.” (Ephesians 6:6, ESV) What Survives the Empty Room A question worth sitting with before the working week gathers pace: how much