Comfort My Comfort Is Jesus

365 Daily Devotions for Morning and Evening
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4245-6138-4
Verlag: BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 736 Seiten

Reihe: Morning & Evening devotionals

Commit your days to the Light of the World. Jesus is more than a role model or powerful historical figure. He is our hope and our joy. Our rock and our crown. My Comfort Is Jesus contains 365 morning and evening devotions, prayers, and suggested Scripture readings to help you journey through the entire Bible in a year. Start your morning with comfort and encouragement in Christ and end your day filled with the peace of his presence.  

RAY COMFORT is the Founder and CEO of Living Waters and the best-selling author of more than 80 books, including, Hell's Best Kept Secret, Scientific Facts in the Bible, and The Evidence Bible. He co-hosts (with actor Kirk Cameron) the award-winning television program The Way of the Master, seen in 200 countries. He is also the Executive Producer on the movies Audacity, 180, Evolution vs. God, and others, which have been seen by millions. He and his wife, Sue, live in Southern California, where they have three grown children.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Comfort, Ray

Leseproben

JANUARY 1

World’s Best-Selling Book

GENESIS 1:1–2

Genesis 1; Genesis 2:1–17

If someone you know believes in evolution, ask them this question: “Do you know which publication is the best-selling book of all time?” It’s the Bible. It gives us our history. In a dark world where ignorance as to our origin prevails, it gives us light. Brilliant and clear light. The Bible doesn’t say “In the beginning…perhaps…maybe…possibly,” as evolution theorists are forced to say. It states facts.

This is the Word of our Creator, and his Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. In a lost world, it gives us direction. When generations have been told that their lives have neither rhyme nor reason to exist—that they are nothing more than the mindless products of a thoughtless explosion of nothing in space—the Bible provides meaning for their existence. It tells them that God was in the beginning, and it was he who said, “Let there be light.”

Breaking the Rules

MATTHEW 1:1–2

Matthew 1:1–25; Psalm 1:1–6

When actor Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived in Hollywood in the late 1970s, he broke all the rules. In those days, actors needed a name that was easy to remember, a great speaking voice, and the ability to act. People could hardly pronounce his name, let alone remember it. His thick accent was hard to understand, and in those days, he arguably couldn’t act. He didn’t need any of those things actors supposedly needed—probably because he had a body like Mr. Universe, which was a title Schwarzenegger held at the young age of twenty. He had the goods.

The New Testament breaks all the rules when it comes to writing books. A good book should begin with a strong opening that grabs the reader’s attention, but the New Testament doesn’t do that. Instead, the book of Matthew begins with genealogies—names that are hard to pronounce and remember. But it can break the rules because it has the goods. It tells us how we can find everlasting life, and those who realize they will die one day don’t need a compelling hook. Death is enough incentive to search the Scriptures.

JANUARY 2

God’s Creative Genius

GENESIS 2:18

Genesis 2:18–25; Genesis 3; Genesis 4:1–16

It was God who said that it wasn’t good for man to be alone, so he made a woman to keep him company. Neither of them was a hairy primate, nor were they swinging through the trees and grunting. They weren’t beasts without moral understanding. The first woman was no doubt a breathtaking thing of beauty. God made Adam first, and then he made someone to help him. God knew that no man can do well in life without the help of a good woman.

Evolution is the epitome of thoughtlessness, and those who embrace it as a credible explanation of our origin aren’t thinking deeply. It leaves more than one or two open-ended questions, such as how the first man found the first woman if his eyes weren’t fully evolved. Eyes don’t function unless they are complete. Neither does a heart or lungs or a brain. How did this lone, blind, breathless, thoughtless, heartless first primate find a mate to keep the species going? The answer to this question is that there isn’t one. That’s why, when asked how a myriad of impossibilities happened, believers of evolution admit that they don’t know.

The Wise Seek Him

MATTHEW 2:9

Matthew 2:1–18; Psalm 2:1–12

A wise man once said that wise men still seek God. In the blackness they see the brightness of his star. Jesus stood out from the moment of his conception. The wise seek him because no other name is given among men whereby they may be saved from death. His wonderful words were without precedent, and those who are wise build their house upon the rock of his Word. The foolish ignore him—too busy with the cares of this life to be concerned with the next. Heaven is the last thing on their minds.

God offers eternal life, and his offer is universal. will may come. That includes Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, agnostics, and atheists. Yet a considerable portion of humanity chooses to remain in the dark. Tears should fill our eyes at such a reality because we know that they run from the pleasures of heaven and instead walk toward the pains of hell. We empathize with them because we, too, once walked in their shoes.

JANUARY 3

The Days of Noah

GENESIS 6:5

Genesis 4:17–26; Genesis 5; Genesis 6

Matthew 24:37–39 is quite specific when it speaks of the end of the age: “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”

Too many souls in the world are busy living life without the slightest concern of their need for the Savior. They unknowingly hold a hand grenade with the pinned pulled out. In Noah’s day, God saw that the wickedness of man was great and that every thought and imagination of the human heart was evil. Do you recognize a similar condition in the modern world? All around us today, we see the ways in which evil has exploded across the earth. Few look toward the heavens and ask, “What does God require of me?”

Angelic News

MATTHEW 2:19–20

Matthew 2:19–23; Matthew 3, Psalm 3:1–8

Herod died. No doubt his death finally answered the prayers of many of God’s people. What sort of monster would slaughter a mass of innocent children in an attempt to kill one tiny baby? But Herod did just that. The king wanted Jesus dead at any cost. Now was dead, and Joseph heard the breaking news directly from an angel of the Lord during a vivid dream, in which the angel said, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child’s life are dead” (Matthew 2:20).

He wasn’t the first Joseph to have a divine dream. Many years earlier his namesake dreamed of the sun, the moon, the stars, and bundles of wheat. He also interpreted others’ dreams about grapes, wine, baskets of bread, fat cows, and thin cows (see Genesis 37 and 40). The instructions for both Josephs came in dreams; our instructions come straight from Jesus: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).

JANUARY 4

Come into the Ark

GENESIS 7:1

Genesis 7; Genesis 8; Genesis 9:1–17

God told Noah that judgment would come after seven days (see Genesis 7:4–5). To the Lord, a single day is the equivalent of one thousand years (see 2 Peter 3:8). For a long seven thousand years, God has been warning humanity that judgment is coming. From Adam, whose conscience gave him a consciousness of sin, to contemporary humanity—every human being knows that a higher moral law exists. And we know this because God has given us light in the form of the work of the law written upon our hearts (see Romans 2:15).

In other words, we are without excuse and should seek God for his mercy. And those who seek him will find him if they search with all their heart (see Jeremiah 29:13). Noah feared God and did...