Devotion Archive

She departed from her master’s house with a bottle of water and some bread, took her son and walked towards the wilderness. When the water was spent, she cast the child under one of the shrubs, went and sat a distance away so as...

They say troubles come in doubles. Sounds true, isn’t it? There are times when we see troubles coming one after another leaving us feeling exasperated, frustrated and annoyed. Our peace is disturbed and joy is swept away.

Time waits for no one. It’s already the end of October and soon another new year will unfold. It seems as if the past days and months have just flown by. We go around doing so many things but when we take time to….

She had been through five broken relationships. She was a nobody; a scar on society’s fabric. She could feel those cold ridiculing hard looks; those sly smirks on the faces of men; those hushed up whispers…

Friendships are something we cherish and delight in. Friends come along into our lives, some linger on for a long time, some fade away; a few become that close circle…

In olden days, the way the wine would be preserved was to put them in wineskins. Bottles had not entered the market yet. These wineskins were made out of animal skins, dried and sewed together into a bag.

The Bible records an amazing story on forgiveness. The son rebelled against the father, left home with half of his share of the property, squandered all his wealth in a nearby country…

Taking up a new job, relocating to new town or country for a better standard of living, taking up a job transfer, shifting to a new place for specialty medical treatment or higher education, going abroad or….

There are moments when divine sovereignty intervenes in man’s life. This true incident testifies to this amazing fact. The father was taking his daughter for tuitions that evening. While riding on the highway…

Traveling through the desert was not easy. The Israelites had to leave the kind of life they were used to in Egypt and make their way through the desert sands adjusting to a new mode of living…

Joseph was a victim of hate. His own brothers hated him so much. They schemed to get rid off him. They put him in a dungeon leaving him there to die. Later they changed their minds and sold him as a slave.

There was something about Jacob that brought success to his hardwork. Watching him closely, Laban his father-in-law discovered that God was behind Jacob, blessing him in everything he did.

Moving out of his home country was a huge step of faith for Abraham. At God’s command he moved out of his comfort zone and treaded upon unfamiliar ground. Traveling through uncharted territory calls for faith beyond sight.

It’s startling how quickly conclusions can be deduced based on what is obvious to the natural eye. But such conclusions don’t always turn out to be right. Samuel found out so.

As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city of Jericho, a blind man, Bartimaeus was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard that Jesus was passing by, he began to shout…

It was the most incredible journey ever filled with sings and wonders unraveling the miraculous power of God. God in His Sovereign will ordained the Israelites to possess the Judean plateau and countryside as their inheritance.

It was an open challenge. This came when Jesus was vulnerable. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter who is the devil came to him and said…

There’s a familiar saying, ‘It’s no use crying over spoilt milk’. We all regret about something or the other of the past. But brooding over past regrets only makes things more difficult. It hampers progress.

We were so awestruck by this incident to see how God cares even about the little details of our lives. We had to take our train at 2:40 pm that afternoon. So we rushed to the station from work. Enroute, our church pastor called…

There wasn’t anything grand or exquisite about it. It was just a simple bower, a shady leafy shelter in a garden. The bower had grown around the grill with its tendrils sprawling out as if reaching for the sun. It arched its...

It’s interesting to study or observe a music piece. Various notes interplay to form the harmonious melody. A rest note will show up now and then, intercepting the music. This rest note is an interval of silence in the piece of...

We all have been through this cycle of making a resolution and breaking it. It’s especially hard when the resolution is the overcome a habit or addiction. At first we feel good that we could stick to it for a day or two. But a...

Various procedures are adopted to make plants yield fruit. One such is the process of pruning where the plant is trimmed so that it can grow better and produce more fruit. The Bible portrays us as plantings of the Lord and God as...