Pastor Tom's Daily Devotional

Psalms 8:1-4 (NLTSE) O Lord, our Lord, Your majestic name fills the earth!  Your glory is higher than the heavens.  2 You have taught children and infants to tell of Your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose You.  3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of Your fingers– the moon and the stars You set in place– 4 what are mere mortals that You should think about them, human beings that You should care for them? How amazing it is to look outside on a clear night and see the wonders of God our Father!  When we think that God has made all of this for us, His people, it truly is hard for our minds to comprehend.  Our Father is a God of the amazing.  All He made is over-the-top.  How easy it would have been for Him to just make enough to fill the earth, and be done.  But not our Father!  When He does something, He does it to the max! When He created this universe, He made it so large and so ...

2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV) But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. Day in and day out we are being changed into the image of the Lord.  We are growing to be more like Him.  What does it mean to be more like God, to be more like Jesus, and to be more like the Holy Spirit?  It means to act like they would act.  We can always see how God would act by looking at the life of Jesus.  Jesus is God manifested in the flesh.  He said that whoever has seen Him has seen the Father. So how did Jesus act?  He went around doing good and healing those who were oppressed by the devil.  He loved people.  John could lay His head on the Creator’s chest.  He saw people who were hungry, and He went and fed them.  When a person had a problem with a demon, He cast that thing out of them. What was J...

1 Corinthians 13:12 (NLT) Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. While we live on this earth, we are not going to know the answer to every question.  When we think we do, it is kind of arrogant on our part.  God is the only One who knows it all.  In this life, we walk by faith and not by sight.  We put our trust in Him, believing that He will show us things we need to know, because He knows what is best for us. Faith is a big word, and a big step, for so many of us that like to know everything in advance.  It is saying, “Father, I know that you have my best interest in mind, and that everything is going to work out for my good because You love me.” In this verse, it shows us that things can be cloudy at times, and that we might no...

Philippians 4:19 (NKJV) And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I love this verse!  It is right to the point.  Our God shall supply all of our needs.  Now, everyone that lives on this earth has needs for clothes, food, and drink, and our God supplies it so faithfully each and every day.  Think of it: He not only supplies for us, but also for the six-plus billion people on earth.  And He does not stop there.  He also supplies for all the animals, birds, fish, bugs, and on, and on. Think for just a few minutes of what it takes to do that, and He does it 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  He does not take one day off.  He has been doing it ever since He created everything that has life.  What a great God we serve! When Jesus saw that the people were hungry, He provided tons of fish and bread.  When He needed money for taxes, He had a fish with a coin in it.  When Jo...

Revelation 4:8-11 (NKJV) The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!" 9 Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: 11 "You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created." Look at what is going on in heaven right now.  The elders, the living creatures, and the angels hang out around God’s throne singing and worshipping Him.  Here we do it on the earth in our church services, but there they do it right at the throne.  One of the things that they say over and over again is “Holy, H...

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NKJV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. Our God is a God of comfort.  It does not matter what we are going through; He has promised us that He would be there to hold us and also to get us through it.  When we get through it, when we win this fight of faith, He then asks us to help others, to bring comfort to those that might be going through a rough time. In our lives, we are going to hit bumps in the road.  Some of the bumps can feel like your engine is going to fall out, but hold on!  Your Father will get you through.  Have you ever been on a roller coaster ride, and when you get started you kind of say, “Why did I get on this thing?”  Your knuckles are white, there is sweat pouring ou...