Daily Devotions - Inspirational Bible Devotions

"Are any of you inclined to murmur? Do you think God deals harshly with you? Well, you are what you are, by His grace. Though you are not what you wish to be, keep in mind, you are not what you ought to be -- if strict justice were carried out, against the sinner that lives within.

"In the poorhouse you might be, if God hadn't preserved you, from the sin that would have brought you there. At the grave's mouth you might be, or perhaps on the sick bed, and possibly on the verge of eternity. Understand that God's holiest saints, have not themselves, been spared from the grave.

"O God, when we think of what we are not, because Your grace has kept us from it, we can only say, 'You have loaded us with glorious benefits.' Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The 'many mansions' are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has, and is, and shall be.

"In all gifts of His ascension, you have a part; in the gifts that come to us through Christ, who is seated at the right hand of God, you have your share; and in the glories of the Second Coming, you shall partake. See how in the present, and in the past, and in the future, He loads you with glorious benefits."