The Occasional Devotional

The Israelites said to Moses, “We will die! We are lost, we are all lost! Anyone who even comes near the tabernacle of the Lord will die. Ar...

Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. (Ps 82:4) It’s easy to sit in the suburbs and think the urban po...

Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen. (Ps 77:19) How do you follow an ...

No man can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for him – the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough. But God ...

Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove the folly from him. (Pro 27:22) In the B...

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite w...

The lamp of the Lord searches the spirit of a man; it searches out his inmost being. (Pro 20:27)  When we say that we have “given our he...

He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord. (Pro 18:22) What a blessing my wife has been to me! Thank you, L...

Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. (Pro 19:27) One of the most important attributes o...

The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but accurate weights are his delight. (Pro 11:1) This is one of those verses that seem so foreign to us ...