Monday: Gut-Wrenching Love
Daily Lesson for Monday 20th of January 2025 The incalculable depths of God’s compassionate love for humanity are manifested in Hosea. God had commanded the prophet Hosea, “ ‘Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord’ ” (Hosea 1:2, NKJV). … Continue reading –>
Sunday: More Than a Mother’s Love
Daily Lesson for Sunday 19th of January 2025 Perhaps the greatest love common to human experience is the love of a parent for a child. The Bible often uses the imagery of the parent-child relationship to depict God’s amazing compassion for people, emphasizing that God’s compassion is exponentially greater than even the deepest and most … Continue reading –>
Sabbath: God Is Passionate and Compassionate
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 18th of January 2025 Read for This Week’s Study: Psalms 103:13, Isaiah 49:15, Hosea 11:1-9, Matthew 23:37, 2 Corinthians 11:2, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Memory Text: “ ‘Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget … Continue reading –>
Inside Story: The Thankful Deacon
Inside Story for Friday 17th of January 2025 By Andrew McChesney Jong-Moon Yoon is known as the thankful deacon. The first words out of his mouth no matter the circumstances are “thank you.” When someone asks for help, he says, “Thank you.” When he faces a conflict, he says, “Thank you.” When hardships and even … Continue reading –>
Friday: Further Thought – To Be Pleasing to God
Daily Lesson for Friday 17th of January 2025 Read Ellen G. White, “ ‘Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled,’ ” Pages 662–680, in The Desire of Ages. “The Lord is disappointed when His people place a low estimate upon themselves. He desires His chosen heritage to value themselves according to the price He has placed … Continue reading –>
Thursday: A Worthy Goal
Daily Lesson for Thursday 16th of January 2025 Under the umbrella of God’s mercy and mediation, God takes pleasure in even the smallest positive response to His love. Through the One who alone is worthy of love and is Himself perfectly righteous, each one of us can be counted righteous and counted among God’s beloved … Continue reading –>
Wednesday: Living Stones
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 15th of January 2025 How is it that we, as fallen, sinful beings, can be pleasing to a holy God? Read Romans 8:1 and Romans 5:8. What do these texts teach about our standing before God? God bestows grace on people prior to any human response. Before anything we say or … Continue reading –>
Tuesday: Pleasing God?
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 14th of January 2025 How could it be that the God of the universe takes delight in mere humans, fleeting blobs of protoplasm on one tiny planet amid what is probably an infinite universe? How could it be possible that humans could matter so much to the Supreme Being, who is … Continue reading –>
Monday: Rejoicing With Gladness
Daily Lesson for Monday 13th of January 2025 Hard as it is for us to imagine, God considers each person of incalculable value, which is why He rejoices over the salvation of even one soul. Read Zephaniah 3:17. How does this verse shed light on the parable of the prodigal son? Zephaniah 3:17 emphatically displays … Continue reading –>
Sunday: More Valuable Than You Can Imagine
Daily Lesson for Sunday 12th of January 2025 As we saw in an earlier lesson, there is no one—even the worst sinner or worst evildoer—whom God does not love. And because God values people more than we could possibly imagine, He is displeased by sin because He loves us and knows what sin does to … Continue reading –>