Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Faith glorifies God because it is a future-oriented confidence in God’s integrity and power and wisdom to follow through on all his promises.

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2026

We don’t become heirs of Abraham’s promises by working for God but by being confident that God works for us.

Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2026

Why does faith not nullify the grace of God? Because faith calls all attention to grace and magnifies it, rather than nullifies it.

Transcribed - Published: 1 June 2026

The worship of daily obedience is not at bottom a burdensome giving to God, but a joyful getting from God. That is the true service that God demands.

Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2026

Faith nullifies boasting and glorifies grace. Wherever faith looks, it sees grace behind every praiseworthy act. So it cannot boast, except in the Lord.

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2026

God has wise and holy purposes when he does not answer our prayers as we want. Trust him. He knows what he is doing.

Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2026

The sovereign grace of God can turn the unplanned place and the unplanned pace into the happiest ending imaginable.

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2026

We can know that our sins are taken away and that we will be safe in the judgment, if we trust Christ in such a way that it makes us eager for his coming.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2026

Patience is indeed a fruit of the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit empowers us (with all his fruit) through hearing with faith.

Transcribed - Published: 26 May 2026

What feels to us like a waste is what God plans. He works through the most hopeless circumstances.

Transcribed - Published: 25 May 2026

Our election is unconditional in the strictest sense. Neither our faith nor our obedience is the basis of it. It is free and utterly undeserved.

Transcribed - Published: 24 May 2026

When we sit down to calculate the cost of following Jesus — when we weigh the “worst” and the “best” — he is worth it. Abundantly worth it.

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2026

Jesus knows all his sheep by name; that is, he knows them individually and intimately.

Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2026

God is so eager to work for us that he goes around looking for more work to do for people who will trust him.

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2026

When you love Christ, you don’t take much thought for your life in this world. Rather, you live for the glory of God’s grace.

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2026

What makes the whole Trinity rejoice together? The free, electing love of God to hide the true spiritual identity of Christ from the intellectual elite and to reveal it to babes.

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2026

Don’t replace Christ this summer with trifles. Seek the things that are above. Flight from Christ into Christless leisure makes the soul parched.

Transcribed - Published: 18 May 2026

Consider these five digital dangers and some accompanying resolutions to avoid and redeem them.

Transcribed - Published: 17 May 2026

God’s electing love is absolutely free. It is the gracious overflow of his boundless happiness guided by his infinite wisdom.

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2026

Trust God. Commit your way to him. Roll onto him your anxieties, frustrations, and plans — indeed, your very life.

Transcribed - Published: 15 May 2026

Hope and love do not come from nowhere. They grow out of ideas — views of reality — revealed in the Scriptures.

Transcribed - Published: 14 May 2026

How did you come to be a Christian? Join Charles Spurgeon and joyfully confess, “I ascribe my change wholly to God!”

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2026

When God becomes our treasure, we treat our adversaries out of our own fullness with the all-satisfying glory of God.

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2026

You have heard echoes of God’s glory everywhere; tune your heart to the original music. The best place to get your heart tuned is at the cross of Jesus Christ.

Transcribed - Published: 11 May 2026

God is pursuing with omnipotent delight a worldwide purpose of gathering a people for his name from every tribe and language and nation.

Transcribed - Published: 10 May 2026

This is the essence of what it means to love God: to be satisfied in him — not just his gifts, but God himself, as the glorious person that he is.

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2026

Faith overcomes our inborn hostility to God and his will, and frees us to keep his commandments.

Transcribed - Published: 8 May 2026

God will gladly receive anything from us that shows our dependence and his all-sufficiency. Therefore, we can gladly cast all our anxieties on him.

Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2026

The only joy that reflects the worth of God and overflows in God-glorifying love is rooted in true knowledge of God.

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2026

Joy comes from the Holy Spirit, not our own efforts or imagination or family upbringing. Therefore, the call to joy is a call to earnest prayer.

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2026

Gratitude looks back to past grace received and feels thankful. Faith looks forward to future grace promised and feels hopeful.

Transcribed - Published: 4 May 2026

Praying for forgiveness should be based not only on an appeal to God’s mercy, but also on an appeal to his justice in crediting the worth of his Son’s obedience.

Transcribed - Published: 3 May 2026

The goal of everything God takes us through is hope. He wants us to feel unwaveringly hopeful through all tribulations. He wants us to know he loves us.

Transcribed - Published: 2 May 2026

God requires good works not as the ground of our justification (which is the righteousness of Christ alone), but as an evidence of it.

Transcribed - Published: 1 May 2026

In this life of sin and pain, how shall we fight for joy? Here are fifteen ways.

Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2026

The age of sin and misery and death is almost spent. The day of righteousness and peace and total joy is dawning.

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2026

Our sins are laid on Christ and his righteousness is laid on us. That is the great exchange — and it becomes ours not by works but by faith.

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2026

It could not be otherwise but that Christianity be a singing faith. The founder sang. We are a singing people because we are the children of a singing God.

Transcribed - Published: 27 April 2026

When we speak of being a God-centered people, remember, this is because we are joining God in his God-centeredness.

Transcribed - Published: 26 April 2026

The point of Paul’s conversion happening the way it did is to make Christ’s incredible patience vivid for you.

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2026

When we live by faith, rooted in God’s forgiveness, we are freed from the lingering, paralyzing effects even of shame we deserve to feel.

Transcribed - Published: 24 April 2026

Christians care about all suffering — especially eternal suffering. That’s the greatest danger every city faces.

Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2026

Not being afraid shows that you treasure God as your generous Shepherd, Father, and King.

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2026

The key to joy is faith in God’s future grace — that is, being satisfied in all that God promises to be for us.

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2026

Cherish the goodness of the Lord, fear straying from him, flee from every sin, and take refuge in him.

Transcribed - Published: 20 April 2026

This is the gospel: Even though you have sinned greatly, nevertheless there is a future and a hope. Fear not!

Transcribed - Published: 19 April 2026

The One with infinite power in the universe reaches down to personally touch and transform us.

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2026

Faith in Christ is not just assenting to what God is for us, but also embracing all that he is for us in Christ.

Transcribed - Published: 17 April 2026

We won’t bear tomorrow’s load on today’s resources. Today’s mercies are for today’s troubles. Tomorrow’s mercies are for tomorrow’s troubles.

Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2026

Come to God in prayer, to confess your sins, and to accept, as needy little farmyard chicks, the direction of God into the barn of his protection and provision.

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2026