January 23 CHRIST our MEDIATOR: “But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, since as He is also Mediator of a...
January 20 CHRIST the COMING ONE: “For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry”...
January 18 CHRIST UNSEEN yet SEEN: “The world will see Me no more, but you will see Me” (Jn 14:19). F.B. Meyer...
January 17 CHRIST the ALTOGETHER LOVELY ONE (Song of Sol 5:16): This world, though fallen, still catches us by surprise with its beauty....
January 16 CHRIST’S NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME (Php 2:9). Early Christians often referred to “the Name” as though the word stood for...
January 13 “We preach CHRIST CRUCIFIED” (1 Cor 1:23). What self-respecting Jew would ever glory in a cross, the embodiment of a...
January 12 CHRIST the HIGHEST (Isa 52:13). David Baron, in The Servant of Jehovah, explains, “The climax in the height of Christ’s...
January 11 CHRIST “the END of the LAW to everyone who believes” (Rom 10:4). Come, man woman, do you believe? No weightier...
January 10 CHRIST ALWAYS WITH YOU (Mt 28:20). F.B. Meyer writes: “In the early morning, as soon as you awake, remember that...
January 9 CHRIST our CAPTAIN (Heb 2:12). “It was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all...
January 8 CHRIST the PRIZE (Php 3:14). James Gunn, in “The Christian’s Ambition,” explains that the word philotimeomai is found just 3x...
January 7 CHRIST the REDEEMER (Isa 59:20). My friend Gerald and I were visiting some believers living along the shore of the...
January 6 CHRIST our LIFE (Col 3:4). C.H. Mackintosh writes: God looks for reality. He is not satisfied with mere words of...
January 4 CHRIST our MASTER (Mt 8:19). “Master” is the translation of six Greek words. He is our Kurios (Mk 13:35; Eph...
January 3 CHRIST the SEEKER (Lk 19:10). F.B. Hole tells of Peter, a steeple-watch in the cathedral in Utrecht. A believer, he spent...
January 2 “JESUS CHRIST the SAME yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb 13:8). In his classic, The Root of the Righteous, A.W. Tozer...
January 1 CHRIST the FIRST (Rev 1:17). On May 9, 1841, George Müller penned a pamphlet titled “First.” He writes: It has pleased...
December 31 CHRIST the WAITING ONE: “The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, till…” (Ps 110:1; Mt 22:44)....
December 30 CHRIST the CAPTIVATOR: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive” (Eph 4:8). “…bringing every thought into captivity to...
December 28 CHRIST the MYSTERY: “Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh” (1 Tim 3:16)....
December 27 The UNRESTRICTED CHRIST: “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall...
December 26 THIS SAME JESUS: “This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner...
December 25 JESUS: “You shall call His name JESUS” (Mt 1:21). James Hastings writes: “We meet the name for the first time...
December 23 JESUS the DOVE MAN: “And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice...
December 22 JESUS the POOR MAN: “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet...
December 21 CHRIST the SWEET SAVOR: “And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an...
December 20 JESUS the BRIGHTNESS of GOD’S GLORY: “who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person”...
December 19 CHRIST the BREAD: “Lord, give us this bread always” (Jn 6:34). I recall hearing of an old Jewish lady, a...
December 18 CHRIST the ANCIENT of DAYS: To understand this remarkable title, we need to compare two descriptions: Daniel 7:9-10 and Revelation...
December 17 CHRIST’S GUIDING EYE: “And the Lord turned and looked at Peter” (Lk 22:61). R.E. Speer writes: A Christian lawyer from...
December 14 CHRIST the INHERITANCE SHARER: “If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” (Rom 8:17). Think of it,...
December 13 CHRIST the AWAKENER: “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up” (Jn 11:11). R.J. Campbell...
December 12 JESUS the DOER of GREAT THINGS: The Lord Jesus instructed the former demoniac of Gadara, “Return to your own house,...
December 11 CHRIST the CAPTAIN: “It was fitting for Him,…in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation...
December 10 CHRIST the HORN of SALVATION (Lk 1:69): Dear Christian, rejoice today in the fullness of our provision as expressed in...
December 9 CHRIST the SUPREME OFFERING: “Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to...
December 8 CHRIST with the MIGHTY NAME: “And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong” (Acts 3:16)....
December 7 JESUS the JUDGE: “God…commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge...
December 6 CHRIST the TREE: “Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons....
December 5 JESUS, FRIEND of COMMONERS: “And the common people heard Him gladly” (Mk 12:37). James Hastings writes: God often uses minnows...
December 4 CHRIST our BRIDEGROOM: “Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!” (Mt 25:6). You remember when the unnamed...
December 3 CHRIST the DIVIDING LINE: “Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity” (Eph 6:24). “If...
December 2 CHRIST the PATRIARCH’S DELIGHT: Abraham, said the Lord Jesus, “rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was...
December 1 JESUS the GIFT: “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His...
November 30 CHRIST the HEALER: “Were there not ten cleansed?” (Lk 17:17). H.P. Liddon writes: Misfortune makes strange associates, and of these...
November 29 CHRIST the PERFECTIONIST: “Assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will...
November 27 CHRIST the REAPER: “He who reaps…gathers fruit for eternal life” (Jn 4:36). This the Lord told His disciples just after...
November 26 JESUS CHRIST the GREATER: “Who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not...
November 25 The KEEN-EYED CHRIST: “So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you that...
November 24 JESUS the KING: “Behold your King!” (Jn 19:14). When Pilate said these words, the mockery of the Lord Jesus’ claim...
November 23 CHRIST the GRACE DISPENSER (Heb 4:16): W.A. Cornaby tells of riding with a Chinese boatman on the river Han: The...
November 21 CHRIST the SUPREME RULER: “Jesus Christ,…the ruler over the kings of the earth” (Rev 1:5). Buried in Aachen Cathedral in...
November 19 CHRIST the BAPTIZER: “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Mt 3:11). William Arthur writes: Suppose we...
November 18 CHRIST the NOURISHER and CHERISHER: “No one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the...
November 16 JESUS the KINSMAN: “Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the...
November 15 CHRIST the OVERSEER of our SOULS: “For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd...
November 12 CHRIST OUR ANCHOR: “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters...
November 11 CHRIST our PRAYER WARRIOR: “This is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah…” (Deut...
November 10 JESUS the JUST ONE: “The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see...
November 9 GOD the SON (Isa 9:6): “Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists?…What...
November 8 CHRIST the SILENT ONE: “He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led...
November 7 CHRIST OUR KEEPER (Ps 121:5). Paul’s first taste of persecution came quickly after his conversion: “In Damascus the governor under...
November 5 CHRIST the FATHER of ETERNITY: “And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father…” (Isa 9:6). Certainly...
November 3 CHRIST the ONE in whom WE STAND: “Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast...
November 2 CHRIST the FULLNESS (Col 2:9). In his book, In the Arena of Faith, Erich Sauer writes, “About thirty years ago...
October 31 CHRIST the MOUNTAIN CLIMBER: “For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with...
October 30 CHRIST the HATER: “You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil...
October 29 CHRIST the CLEANER: “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean” (Mt 8:2). How this world needs a...
October 28 The PROMISED MESSIAH (the CHRIST): “We have found the Messiah” (Jn 1:41). The promised Messiah is the creator of all...
October 27 JESUS’ GRACE with COMMON FOLK: “Whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven”...
October 26 The SON, the FATHER’S DELIGHT (Part 2): “And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the...
October 25 The SON, the FATHER’S DELIGHT (Part 1): “He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice...
October 24 CHRIST the EPITOME of UNSELFISHNESS: “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to...
October 23 CHRIST the ONE CALLING YOU: “The Master has come and is calling for you” (Jn 11:28). What a wonder, when...
October 22 The INCALCULABLE CHRIST: The gift of Christ to us is indescribable—anekdiegetos, “not able to describe or declare fully” (2 Cor...
October 21 CHRIST the GLORY BEARER: “And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he...
October 20 JESUS, who HEARS HIS PEOPLE’S PRAYERS: “…in the days of His flesh…was heard…” (Heb 5:7). We thought of the Lord...
October 18 JESUS the HARD WORKER: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His...
October 17 CHRIST the UNYIELDING LOVER: “…having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end” (Jn...
October 16 CHRIST OUR NEW OCCUPANT: “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and...
October 15 CHRIST the KING ETERNAL: “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,…out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler...
October 13 CHRIST the ETERNAL LIFE: “The Life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that...
October 12 CHRIST the MERCIFUL: “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not...
October 11 JESUS the GIFT of GOD: “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” (2 Cor 9:15). Adoniram Judson laid the...
October 10 CHRIST the WILLINGLY POOR ONE: “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in...
October 9 CHRIST BEGOTTEN: “The Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You’” (Ps 2:7). This...
October 8 JESUS the PATIENT FARMER: “Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors” (Jn 4:38). Almost every Christian has...
October 7 CHRIST DESERVES OUR LOVE: “Do you love Me?” (Jn 21:17). This is the story of an assembly immersed in love....
October 6 CHRIST the COMMISSIONER: As our Lord prepared to leave the planet, He sent His own on a mission of ultimate...
October 4 CHRIST the FOUNTAIN: “With You is the fountain of life” (Ps 36:9). Peter Cartright (1785-1872) is a remarkable example of...
October 3 CHRIST MANIFESTED: “This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory” (Jn 2:11), that is,...
October 2 CHRIST the LOVER of WHOEVER: “Whosoever believes in Him should not perish” (Jn 3:15): Mary McLeod, 15th of 17 children,...
September 30 The SON and the BREATH of GOD: Even the breath of the Lord has power in it! We know the...
September 29 CHRIST the MAKER—and REMAKER: “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (Jn...
September 28 JESUS, SUFFERER with HIS PEOPLE: “…if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together” (Rom 8:17)....
September 27 CHRIST in the NOW: “But the hour is coming, and now is…” (Jn 4:23). So was the hour coming, or...
September 26 CHRIST the WINE-MAKER: “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk,...
September 25 CHRIST the ABIDING ONE: “Abide in Me, and I in you” (Jn 15:4). James Hudson Taylor was born May 21,...
September 23 CHRIST the MOTIVATOR: “For the love of Christ compels us” (2 Cor 5:14). Dr Helen Roseveare, medical missionary to the...
September 22 THE LOWLY JESUS: “I am…lowly” (Mt 11:29). Here are statements made by and about the Lord Jesus during His earthly...
September 19 CHRIST the CONNECTOR: “For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of...
September 18 CHRIST the BANNER: “There shall be a Root of Jesse, who shall stand as a banner (or rallying point) to...
September 17 JESUS the MEEK ONE: “Learn from Me, for I am meek…” (Mt 11:29). Meekness is not weakness, but strength in...
September 16 CHRIST the GRAIN of WHEAT: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but...
September 15 CHRIST the FOCUS of our FAITH: “I know WHOM I have believed” (2 Tim 1:12). Christ is not only the...
September 14 CHRIST the LIBERATOR: “If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed” (Jn 8:36). William Wilberforce (1759–1833) as...
September 13 CHRIST the JOY-BRINGER: “Enter into the joy of your lord” (Mt 25:21). Look at how the Savior brought not just...
September 12 “The SPIRIT of CHRIST” (Rom 8:9). The Venerable Bede (c. 672–735) was an author, teacher, and scholar. His work, The...
September 10 CHRIST the PEACEMAKER: “My peace I give you; not as the world gives…” (Jn 14:27). During her second year in...
September 9 CHRIST in the KNOW: “His disciples said to Him, ‘See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of...
September 7 WHAT the SON was “MADE” (ginomai) or BECAME through His CRUCIFIXION (Part 2): “We see Jesus, who was made a...
September 6 WHAT the SON was “MADE” (ginomai) or BECAME in His INCARNATION (Part 1): In the next three devotionals, it should...
September 5 CHRIST the COURAGEOUS: “I am with you always” (Mt 28:20). I just read an incident about John Calvert, an Englishman...
September 4 CHRIST the FRUIT-BEARER: “He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can...
September 3 CHRIST our PERFUME: “Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses...
September 2 JESUS as a MAN among MEN: “I am among you as the One who serves” (Lk 22:27). Why would common...
September 1 JESUS the OFFERING for SIN: “When You make His soul an offering for sin…” (Isa 53:10). Who can fathom what...
August 31 JESUS the TENDER-HEARTED: “But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary...
August 30 CHRIST the TRUE: “They said to Him, ‘Teacher, we know that You are true’” (Mk 12:14). The word “true” here...
August 29 JESUS HEAVEN’S GREETER: “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of...
August 27 CHRIST the ESCAPE MASTER: “How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation…?” (Heb 2:3). I recall reading...
August 26 JESUS RAISED UP: “Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high” (Isa...
August 25 JESUS the FAMILY MAN: “I and the children whom God has given Me” (Heb 2:13). William Grimshaw (1708–1763) was ordained...
August 24 CHRIST the One to SEE: Six looks at the Lord Jesus Christ will get us all the way! From lost...
August 23 OUR LORD JESUS—THE MAN: “Through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins” (Acts 13:38). Roland Mills moved...
August 22 OUR LORD JESUS—THIS MAN: Everyone had an opinion about this Man. His townsfolk “were astonished and said, ‘Where did this...
August 20 CHRIST the DOER: “I always DO those things that please Him” (Jn 8:29). If we are to follow Christ, we...
August 19 CHRIST the SIMPLE ANSWER: “‘How can we know the way?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way…’” (Jn 14:5-6)....
August 18 CHRIST the COMPLETER, as seen in John 17. In the Lord’s prayer to His Father, seven times He declares to...
August 17 CHRIST the WORTHY ONE: “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power” (Rev 4:11). Walk worthy...
August 16 JESUS the ULTIMATE HOME BUILDER: “I go to prepare a place for you” (Jn 14:2). Oliver Fisher Winchester founded the...
August 15 CHRIST’S DRAWING POWER: “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself” (Jn...
August 14 CHRIST the COMFORTER: “May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself…comfort your hearts”(2 Thess 2:16-17). Bob Greene (Chicago Tribune, Aug 1987), tells...
August 13 CHRIST IS CALLING: “The Master has come and is calling for you” (Jn 11:28). Peter deeply appreciated the Lord’s calling...
August 12 JESUS the TRUTH (Jn 14:6): “And the governor asked Him, saying, ‘Are You the King of the Jews?’ So Jesus...
August 11 CHRIST INCORRUPTIBLE: “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible…be honor and glory forever and ever” (1 Tim 1:17). The word...
August 10 CHRIST the PARADOX: “As deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live;...
August 9 OUR ABSENT but RETURNING LORD: “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus...
August 8 JESUS “FAITHFUL and TRUE” (Rev 19:11). “Faithful” (pistos) refers to one who “can be relied on…in the transaction of business,...
August 7 CHRIST the RESTORER: Of the Good Shepherd it says, “He restores my soul” (Ps 23:3). Wilbur Smith, in his Treasury...
August 6 CHRIST the GREAT DIVIDE: The word “shed” meaning “poured out” is rarely used today. One exception is the term “watershed,”...
August 3 CHRIST REVEALED: “It pleased God…to reveal His Son in me” (Gal 1:15-16). Andrew Murray writes, “In all our study and...
August 2 CHRIST the BEGINNING and the END: “I am…the Beginning and the End” (Rev 1:8; 21:6; 22:13). In Gen 1:1, the...
July 30 CHRIST the REMAKER: “…so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make”...
July 29 JESUS, SPEAKING through CHILDREN: “Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise” (Mt 21:16). In...
July 28 JESUS, BLESSER of CHILDREN: “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is...
July 27 CHRIST OUR COVERING: “As many of you as were [immersed] into Christ have put on [enduo, been clothed with] Christ”...
July 26 CHRIST’S PRECIOUS BLOOD: “This is My blood of the new covenant…” (Mt 26:28). C.H. Spurgeon writes: “A gentleman has purchased...
July 25 CHRIST the LIFE of LIFE: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ...
July 24 CHRIST the RESCUER: “For He rescued us from the domain of darkness…” (Col 1:13). C.I. Schofield, editor of the well-known...
July 23 CHRIST the REPRODUCER: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it...
July 22 CHRIST the LORD from HEAVEN: “the second Man is the Lord from heaven” (1 Cor 15:47). Adam was from the...
July 21 CHRIST the ULTIMATE GIVER: “the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Gal 2:20). And look...
July 20 CHRIST the FINISHER: “I have finished the work which You have given Me to do” (Jn 17:4). Christ’s saving work...
July 19 CHRIST the LIGHT: “A light to lighten to the Gentiles” (Lk 2:32). In Gospel Reminiscences, Leonard Strong tells of visiting...
July 18 CHRIST the SOVEREIGN: “The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand” (Jn 3:35). Leonard Strong...
July 17 JESUS OUR INTIMATE: “At my first defense no one stood with me.…But the Lord stood with me” (2 Tim 4:16-17)....
July 16 CHRIST the WORD: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,...
July 15 CHRIST the PROVIDER of “ALL THINGS”: “All things are yours…And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s” (1 Cor 3:21-23),...
July 14 JESUS is “THIS MAN.” The officers sent to arrest Jesus said, “No man ever spoke like this Man!” (Jn 7:46)....
July 13 CHRIST the BELIEVER’S PROSPECT: “And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure” (1...
July 12 CHRIST IS NOT FAR: “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word...
July 11 CHRIST THE ONE WE PREACH: “We preach Christ…” (1 Cor 1:23) T.D.W. Muir was born in Ormstown, Quebec in 1855....
July 10 CHRIST is BETTER: In Hebrews, Christ is portrayed as better. For example, “having become so much better than the angels,...
July 9 CHRIST OUR ROOMMATE: “If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in…” (Rev 3:20). Martha Snell...
July 8 CHRIST the TRUE ONE: “Teacher, we know that You are true…” (Mt 22:16). He is the True Illuminator: “That was...
July 7 CHRIST the TENDER-HEARTED: “Through the tender mercy of our God, with which the Dayspring from on high has visited us...
July 6 CHRIST the CONFIDENCE-BUILDER: We have confidence in His unchanging PURPOSE: “According to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ...
July 5 CHRIST our INTERCESSOR (Heb 7:25): To make intercession (en-toong-khan’-o) for someone is to first meet and converse, then to petition...
July 4 CHRIST the MASTER DESIGNER: “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and...
July 3 CHRIST the MAN of PRAYER: “Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He...
July 2 JESUS the FRIEND of ENEMIES: “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good...
July 1 CHRIST SUPREMELY ABLE: “‘Do you believe that I am able to do this?’ They said to Him, ‘Yes, Lord” (Mt...
June 30 CHRIST the INCARNATE MISSIONARY: “In all things He had to be made like His brethren” (Heb 2:17). Our Lord not...
June 29 CHRIST THE UNIFIER: “We, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another” (Rom 12:5). The...
June 28 CHRIST the SOUL-WINNER (Prov 11:30):John Pitezel and his wife served the Lord in n. Michigan from 1844 to 1846 on...
June 27 CHRIST OUR INSPIRATION to WORK HARD: “He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also;...
June 26 JESUS and the RESCUE MISSION: “He trusted in the Lord, let Him rescue Him…!” (Ps 22:8). These words were flung...
June 25 CHRIST ONCE-FOR-ALL: Christ once coming into the world, once going to the cross, once entering the sanctuary, once saving every...
June 24 CHRIST OUR DAYSMAN: Job longed for there to be a go-between, a “daysman between us, that might lay his hand...
June 23 CHRIST OUR BENEFACTOR: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy...
June 22 CHRIST the BELIEVER’S PASSION: “Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him”...
June 21 CHRIST our CHAMPION and the DEVIL’S CHIEF ADVERSARY: “For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there...
June 20 CHRIST the ANTIDOTE to FEAR: “He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we may...
June 18 CHRIST FAITHFUL and TRUE: “These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of...
June 17 CHRIST the WORKER: “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is...
June 16 CHRIST the BELIEVER’S GAIN: “I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my...
June 15 JESUS CHRIST…TODAY (Heb 13:8). No one is ever crushed by the burden of the day. It is when we add...
June 14 CHRIST the LORD of GLORY (1 Cor 2:8). Andrew Welwood, a young Scot, fled persecution to London, but there succumbed...
June 13 CHRIST the STRENGTH-SHARER (2 Cor 12:9). There are no less than six Greek synonyms for “power” or “strength” in the...
June 12 CHRIST, REVEALER of the FATHER: “I have glorified You on the earth” (Jn 17:4). How the Lord Jesus wanted His...
June 11 CHRIST a PLANT of RENOWN (Ezek 34:29). Christianity is eternity in time. With the appearance of Christ a new sprig...
June 10 CHRIST OUR SUFFICIENCY: “Christ is all and in all” (Col 3:11). After his conversion in 1834, Isaac Marsden, a drygoods...
June 9 CHRIST the HOPE of ISRAEL (Jer 17:13). As David Baron writes, the Great Intercessor “bears also ‘His own’ nation Israel...
June 8 CHRIST the LORD of the HARVEST: “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord...
June 7 CHRIST the PROMISE-KEEPER: “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful”...
June 6 CHRIST the LAMB of GOD: “Behold the Lamb…” (Jn 1:29). Sidlow Baxter points out the ten great Lamb passages: in...
June 5 CHRIST OUR REFUGE: “You have been…a refuge from the storm…” (Isa 25:4). The steamer Empire State scarcely caused a ripple...
June 4 CHRIST STRONGER than the STRONG MAN: “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in...
June 3 CHRIST OUR FOUNDATION: “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1...
June 2 CHRIST, LORD of CREATION: “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Mt 28:18). Only the...
June 1 CHRIST TRIUMPHANT: “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold…He will not fail nor be discouraged” (Isa 42:1, 4). Pengwern Jones, fellow...
May 31 JESUS the SUPREME COMMUNICATOR: “No man ever spoke like this Man!” (Jn 7:46). So said the mesmerized officers who had...
May 30 CHRIST our CONSOLATION: “Lord, now let Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; for my eyes have seen...
May 29 CHRIST the MESSIANIC HOPE: “We have found the Messiah” (Jn 1:41). How did Andrew know? The portrait of the Christ...
May 28 CHRIST the INTERVENTIONIST: “all forsook me…But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me” (2 Tim 4:16-17). Caroline Talbott in...
May 27 CHRIST the HEAD: “but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the...
May 26 CHRIST the SOUL-WINNER: “I have found my sheep which was lost!” (Lk 15:6). William Carvosso spent years on horseback, criss-crossing...
May 25 CHRIST the LAST ADAM: “‘The first man Adam became a living being.’ The last Adam became a life-giving spirit” (1...
May 24 CHRIST the WRATH-BEARER: “the ark…is also an antitype which now saves us…” (1 Pet 3:20-21). Just as the waters of...
May 23 CHRIST the ULTIMATE REALITY: “If anyone…does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and...
May 22 JESUS NEVER FAILS: ““Behold! My Servant whom I uphold…He will not fail nor be discouraged” (Isa 42:1, 4). Charles Spurgeon...
May 21 CHRIST our EXAMPLE: “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked” (1...
May 20 CHRIST the ULTIMATE WINNER: “He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet” (1 Cor 15:25). “But...
May 19 CHRIST the HOME-MAKER: “We will come to him and make Our home with him” (Jn 14:23). George Matheson writes: “In...
May 18 CHRIST who MEETS OUR NEEDS: “But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by...
May 17 JESUS, FRIEND of SINNERS: “The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and...
May 16 CHRIST the PRAYER INSTRUCTOR: “Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased,...
May 15 CHRIST the CRUCIFIED ONE: “We preach Christ crucified” (1 Cor 1:23). “I am crucified with Christ” (Gal 2:20). Andrew Murray...
May 14 CHRIST the LIFE PRINCIPLE: “Reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our...
May 13 CHRIST the SIN-OFFERING: “…You make His soul an offering for sin” (Isa 53:10). Years ago, I was leading a tour...
May 12 CHRIST our INSTRUCTOR: “You call Me Teacher and Lord,” He said as He resumed His place among them at the...
May 11 CHRIST the HEART’S OCCUPANT: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith” (Eph 3:17). John Tauler, preaching priest in...
May 10 CHRIST the INTROSPECTOR: “Jesus…knew all men, and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what...
May 9 CHRIST the FINISHER: “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb 12:2). The Lord Jesus will finish...
May 8 CHRIST the DELIVERER: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this...
May 7 CHRIST the MAN of SORROWS: “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief”...
May 6 CHRIST the RANSOM: “Then He is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the Pit; I...
May 5 CHRIST the LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT: “The last Adam became a life-giving spirit” (1 Cor 15:45). “It ought not to be passed...
May 4 CHRIST the AUTHOR of ETERNAL SALVATION (Heb 5:9): General William Booth (1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army, looked into the...
May 3 CHRIST our PLACE PREPARER: “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place...
May 2 CHRIST the BEGINNING: In John 1:1, the Lord Jesus is spoken of as “In the beginning.” This chapter declares Him...
May 1 CHRIST, DEATH’S CONQUEROR: “Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion...
April 30 CHRIST the HEIR: “His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things” (Heb 1:2). This passage in Hebrews includes...
April 29 CHRIST the DISSATISFIED SHEPHERD: “If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not...
April 28 CHRIST the FIRSTBORN: “When He again brings the Firstborn into the world, He says: ‘Let all the angels of God...
April 27 CHRIST the PREPARER of our PLACE: George Henderson points out that the Christian is bound to heaven by eight gold...
April 26 CHRIST the TESTATOR of the NEW COVENANT: “This is the covenant that I will make with them…Their sins and their...
April 25 CHRIST the SON of GOD: “And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God” (Jn 1:34)....
April 24 CHRIST the only DOOR: “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved” (Jn 10:9). Charles...
April 23 JESUS the JUST ONE: Three times in Acts our Lord is called “the Just One.” In Acts 3:14, Peter drives...
April 22 CHRIST the POWER of GOD: “…Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor 1:24). A British...
April 21 CHRIST our VERY PRESENT HELP: “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you...
April 20 CHRIST OVER ALL: “Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God” (Rom 9:5). “The same Lord over all...
April 19 CHRIST in ALL the SCRIPTURES: “He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Lk 24:27). “I...
April 18 JESUS ONLY: “…they saw no one but Jesus only” (Mt 17:8). “The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom...
April 17 CHRIST the SUPREME BLOOD DONOR: “…the precious blood of Christ” (1 Pet 1:19). Walter S. Patrick links the following verses...
April 16 CHRIST the JOYFUL SOUL-RESCUER: “Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!” (Lk 15:6). “Now to...
April 15 CHRIST the EMPIRE BUILDER: “Indeed a greater than Solomon is here” (Lk 11:31). Harold St. John tells a story from...
April 14 CHRIST the REST-BRINGER: “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart,...
April 13 CHRIST “the DESIRE of all nations” (Hag 2:7). Albert Fallaize, missionary to Morocco, tells how his wife visited a dying...
April 12 The INESCAPABLE CHRIST. No one can do as Pilate’s wife suggested, “Have nothing to do with that just Man” (Mt...
April 11 CHRIST of the MIGHTY NAME. “There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be...
April 10 CHRIST the “CHIEF among ten thousand” (Song 5:10). Dr. A.T. Schofield tells the following: Some years ago I went down...
April 9 CHRIST our COUNSELOR: “And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor…” (Isa 9:6). Do you need marriage or family counseling?...
April 8 CHRIST our SCAPE-GOAT. The Septuagint translates the verses about the azazel or scape-goat as follows: “Aaron shall present the goat...
April 7 CHRIST OUR SHILOH: Christ is the PEACE-BRINGER for He is the promised Shiloh, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah,...
April 6 CHRIST our PASSOVER: “Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us” (1 Cor 5:7). God offered Pharaoh evidence that He was...
April 5 CHRIST OMNIPRESENT: “He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you’” (Heb 13:5). When Christ said to...
April 4 CHRIST the CURSED ONE: “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us....
April 3 CHRIST the DAYSPRING: “The Dayspring from on high has visited us; to give light to those who sit in darkness...
April 2 CHRIST the LOVE WARRIOR: “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Rom...
April 1 CHRIST “the WISDOM of GOD”: “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God”...
March 31 CHRIST the REWARDER: “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me” (Rev 22:12). It cannot be mercenary...
March 30 CHRIST our FRIEND: “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is...
March 29 CHRIST is called “the EVERLASTING FATHER” (Isa 9:6). What can this mean? Some have suggested that these words were changed...
March 28 CHRIST the YOKE-SHARER: “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart,...
March 27 CHRIST the RESURRECTED ONE: “In our thinking we must not leave Christ on the cross; for God did not leave...
March 26 CHRIST, GOD’S ANOINTED (Ps 2:2). In his book, The Names and Titles of Christ, Francis Derk explains: Anointing in the...
March 25 CHRIST OUR MAN: “A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, and a cover from the tempest,...
March 24 CHRIST ALL SUFFICIENT: “My grace is sufficient for you” (2 Cor 12:9). “One evening,” said C.H. Spurgeon, “I was riding...
March 23 CHRIST the TRUE MELCHIZEDEK: “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” (Ps 110:4). This verse is...
March 22 CHRIST the SUSTAINER: “And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist (hold together) (Col 1:17). By...
March 21 “OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Tim...
March 20 CHRIST the LIVING WATER: “Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely” (Rev 22:17). William Gamble tells of...
March 19 CHRIST the ETERNAL LOVER: “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent...
March 18 CHRIST our COMPANION: “He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you’” (Heb 13:5). Harner Middleswarth writes:...
March 17 CHRIST the OBEDIENT ONE: “By one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous” (Rom 5:19). Oh how vital was the...
March 16 CHRIST our MODEL of HUMBLE SERVICE: “I am among you as One who serves” (Lk 22:27). In His life on...
March 15 CHRIST our DEBT-PAYER: “Who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a...
March 14 CHRIST our KEEPER: “Now to Him who is able to keep you…” (Jude 24). “The Lord is your keeper” (Ps...
March 13 CHRIST the LAW FULFILLER and SUPERCEDER: “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes” (Rom...
March 12 CHRIST our TREASURE: “To you who believe He is precious” (1 Pet 2:7). The word “precious” is not an adjective...
March 11 CHRIST the CONQUEROR: “When a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his...
March 10 CHRIST our ONLY SAVIOR: “I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no savior” (Isa 43:11). “And...
March 9 CHRIST is NEAR: “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (Deut 30:14). Henry...
March 8 CHRIST our ROCK: “When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I” (Ps 61:2)....
March 7 CHRIST our VICTOR: “Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand...
March 6 CHRIST the KING: “Who is this King of glory?” (Ps 24:10). From the correspondence of Viscountess Powerscourt: Who is this...
March 5 CHRIST the ALPHA and OMEGA (Rev 1:8, 11; 21:6; 22:13). F.W. Boreham writes: Since Alpha is simply the first letter...
March 4 CHRIST the VISITOR: “The Dayspring from on high has visited us” (Lk 1:78). More often than not, we find the...
March 3 CHRIST the FACE of GOD: “It is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone...
March 2 CHRIST is NEAR: “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (Deut 30:14). Henry...
March 1 CHRIST the DISPENSER of LIVING WATER: “Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst” (Jn...
June 19 CHRIST our SURETY: “By so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant” (Heb 7:22). A surety...
