Wisdom International Devotionals

by Seth Davey

  Sabbath Psalm (December 13-14) (From my new song, “Words in the Wounds”) Lord, when we fail To see Your smile above the rim of sorrow’s veil And find our vision far too dim and faith too frail And when the waves of doubt pour in to sink our sail Your faithfulness endures And when we’re scared And when the thunders clap and we’re so unprepared And through the billows we can’t hear Your whispered care Oh, how the devil’s hateful jeering clouds the air But still Your Word is sure So we will rest In Your success Your wounds are our mighty tower And we’ll proclaim That saving Name Hell’s torrents can never overpower Immanuel God is with us! In the middle of the tempest Immanuel God is for us! And there’s an angel chorus Singing o’er us Listen to the words in the wounds Listen to the voice calling, “Come out from that tomb!” Listen as the veil rips apart Listen to the rhythms of Redemption’s beating heart

  Friday (December 12) Grace that Still Amazes Psalm 110:1 The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” What thoughts must have swept through David’s mind as he penned these prophetic words about Christ? How did he picture this soon-coming heir from heaven? What regal images flooded in as he considered the magisterial descendant who would one day reign on the throne of earth and heaven as King over all kings and Lord over all lords? Ponder that with me, friend. Did David, even for a second, even in his wildest imaginings, ever imagine that this coming King would resemble him in so many ways? Did he know that Christ would be born into poverty, not in a palace surrounded by hundreds of worshiping dignitaries, but in a manger in the hillsides of a backwater town, surrounded by only a few shepherds? Did he foresee that Christ would be overlooked by his friends and family members despite being anointed by the great prophet, John the Baptize...

Thursday (December 11) Bon Appetit! Psalm 104:14b-15 … that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart. Evolutionary biologists are quick to exploit the various processes of adaptation in nature as exemplars of their doctrine. For instance, I’ve read that there are different species of finches on the various Galapagos Islands, and all have developed a different type of beak based on what sorts of food are available to them. Finches that live around hard nuts have developed large, more blunted beaks, while finches surrounded by cactus have developed long, thin beaks that can safely extract juice from the cactus flower, while still other finches have developed medium-sized beaks to catch insects. I’m truly amazed by how God wired flora and fauna with this incredible range of adaptability. But that’s only half the story. Evolutionists look to such changes as natural processes of chance, or, in...

Wednesday (December 10) The Test of Time Psalm 102:18 Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD. Just because we can’t see into the future doesn’t mean we shouldn’t earnestly build for it. Older generations understood this principle far better than younger ones, don’t they? Think back on the old days, where men built houses with brick and stone and oak, and even built barns and storage buildings from sturdy materials, because they wanted the structures to stand for generations. In fact, we own a small tract of land in the rural NC mountains that I camp out on from time to time, and just down the road from me is a 92-year-old man named Earl whose family has been in that area since the early 1900s, and he still has the remnants of a barn on his property that dates all the way back to the Civil War. Back then, if a man toiled to build a house, he didn’t cut costs so that he could flip it for a profit. He built it sturdy so that h...

  Tuesday (December 9) Truth, Alienated Psalm 100:3 Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Strange as it sounds, I recently talked with a friend last week who is obsessed with the modern theory that aliens are the ‘answer’ to all the perplexities of man’s existence. Ask him how ancient Egyptians built the pyramids or how human beings dragged thousands of two-ton stones hundreds of miles without modern technology, and he’ll quickly tell you that aliens did it. Ask him why people in all cultures, especially ancient cultures, raise megaliths and stone circles that reveal a raptured attention to planetary alignments and celestial bodies, and he’ll say that aliens showed up through portals in the sky to meet ancient men. Ask him why people from every tribe, tongue, and nation, from East to West, from slaves to princes, universally share a belief in spiritual reality and concoct religions and construct altars ...