Daylight Meditations

Today’s meditation is taken from Psalm 25. Three times in this Psalm reference is made to God’s ‘unfailing love’. It is a promise, a reminder that God’s love for us won’t fail, it won’t be less than all that we need – every moment. When others intend harm, and insult, God leads us in truth. He point the right way to go. A heart turned toward God will be rewarded with a love that covers sins, a hop...

Wisdom is defined as “the ability or result of an ability to think and act utilizing knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight”. Verse 17 in this third chapter of Proverbs sums it up nicely: The ways of wisdom are sweet, always drawing you into the place of wholeness. That is what our hearts seek – to be whole, to live in that place of wholeness where we understand and accept...

Today’s meditation is Psalm 15. The privilege of dwelling with God is experienced when our hearts are aligned with right thinking and a posture of humility toward others. Daily we choose what we will say to and about others, how we will respond when rumors fly and to what end will we fulfill our promises? Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. (Ps. 51:10, NLT) Daylight...

What are the rewards for seeking wisdom? In Proverbs 3, we’re told it is a satisfied life. That being faithful to what we learn, shapes integrity into our souls. It is from our souls that we live. It is there where our character is formed. It is there that our loyalty and values are shaped. With wisdom we can pursue the best God has for us, bringing health and completeness to our very souls. Dayli...

Today’s meditation is based on selected verses from Proverbs 4. If we remembered nothing else from the Bible, the words we will speak from Proverbs chapter 4, might well be some of the most important that we ever hear. We are to fill our thoughts with God’s words, taking time to unwrap them so they ‘impart true life and radiant health into the very core’ of our being. If we guard our hearts, payin...

The scriptures say love is supreme. We love to love others and to be loved. God’s love empowers us to give out more than we might get back. It replenishes us and gives us the confidence to know even when life is tough, love softens and smooths over the rough spots that disrupt our hearts and interactions. Love deeply, friends. It is God’s way. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North...

So much of our character is worked out in living with others. It is in community that we learn to love others more than ourselves. We are challenged to love when we don’t feel like it, to be real when we’d rather hide. Community is where we find ourselves leading others and following as well. It is where life becomes real and rewarding. Hard and endearing. It’s where we grow up – with family. Dayl...

As you listen today, open your heart to the transformation God births in you every time to hear His words. These words change us, and in turn we make choices and decisions that are God-breathed, and life changing. Live in the hope and calling of His perfect plan for you- a transformed life in Jesus. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to...

Mercy is Grace’s twin sister, the expression of compassion in response to our cry for help, for forgiveness, for a friendship. It is the kindness of strangers, the extravagance of love undeserved and the willingness to stay in it for the long haul. Mercy is a posture of loving well, as Jesus loved us. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org...

What does redemptive living look like? How do we now live? It is moment by moment. Facing each decision, each interaction with the determination of becoming like Christ. We live with the knowledge that we are changed and that in that change our decision to love others in new and redeeming ways will change those we meet. May it be so. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America....

Grace is a word we use often, yet I wonder if we’re aware of the power and magnitude of the word. As an action of God, it erases our guilt. As an action of ours, it should pardon the sins of others. We are quick as seek acquittal yet we can be slow to grant it. Father, would you show us where we can be more like Jesus in this? Would you remind us of the strength in this characteristic of love – th...

Can we discern what we are hearing? Are we able to listen when what we hear is the heart cries of our families and friends? As you, dear friend, listen to this scriptural meditation, let God speak to your heart and mind. Ask Him to open you spiritual ears to hear so your mind will understand the importance of what He has said. So, your heart will melt when it hears the heart cry of another and hea...

Peace is thought of as a frame of mind, or a condition of society. We seek it. We strive to attain it. We struggle when we don’t have it. But do know how to quiet ourselves so we can receive it? Practicing how to live in peace, is the practice of being quiet long enough for God to be acknowledged, long enough to listen receive this gift. As you listen today, practice quieting yourself. Then God wi...

It is no secret that hope is that one aspect of life that keeps us going. The proverb nails it: When hope’s dream seems to drag on and on, the delay can be depressing. How true it is! Yet… as the Psalmist says, “my only hope is to hope in you alone!” And that, friends, is where we must land – hoping in God, the one who cares for us more than anyone else! Put your trust in God. He knows what is goi...

To live a life of sacrificial love is to allow God’s love to be ours. God’s love sacrifices, forgives, endures, isn’t offended, and prefers others over its self. This is all desirable, and admirable but unattainable on our own. Only by sacrificing our love, our ways, and our best intentions will we be clothed in a love that is willing give its own coat away for the sake of keeping another soul war...

Knowing God is knowing peace. If we can still the thoughts in our minds, we can hear the whisper of God to our souls - Be still and know that I am God. It is then we also know that God can handle what we cannot. He will rescue our minds. He will guard our hearts. He will hear us – every time we call to Him. As you listen to these well-known scriptures, let the peace of God find its resting place i...

Today’s meditation is based on selected verses from Proverbs 4. Through the haze of today’s standards, we choose every day to live with integrity. To not compromise. To listen intently to the voice of wisdom. Not reason. It is only through wisdom that we can finish the race before us, holding to our deep, unspoken dream of finishing well. We get up when we stumble for the revelation of life’s mean...

In community means being in communion with each other – a oneness that transcends human judgement, that loves unconditionally and seeks to live justly with each other. Our model is Jesus’ life, of course. In Him and with His spirit we experience this wholeness and wholesomeness of life as God intended. We experience moments of this. Might we consider as we listen today, what selfless living, sacri...

Today’s meditation is Psalm 8. This Psalm reminds us to look up. To stand for a few minutes in awe of the skies and nature. To realize the Creator of it all, made us to rule with Him! He entrusted us with this world. It should make us stop and wonder – who are we that the God of the universe would care, would bother with us! Dear Father, forgive us for not paying attention; for not noticing the in...

Look at your entire world, from within yourself to the world around you. God, who established the heavens, and formed us from the dust of the earth has put His spirit in us who believe His Son, transforming us in a moment into who He intended us to be. Although, we live in time and continue to see the effect of sin and decay around us, we are the first of all He will make new again. It’s a promise...

Today’s meditation is based on selected verses from Proverbs 2. There are many places in the Bible where God promises to instruct us and teach us in the way we should go (Ps. 32:8). This second chapter of Proverbs is a clear passage of purpose for anyone wishes to know what to do to live well. Verses 3-5 gives us permission to ‘train your heart to listen’ and to ‘cry out for comprehension’. Enter...

Such a mystery, indeed! That God can and does live within us, His Spirit speaking with ours, guiding us, empowering us, protecting us and loving us. Where can we go and not see You, God? Where can we hide and not find you already there?! Such love we have yet to know – it is greater than anything we have experienced and yet – it is ours; it is God himself wanting to be a part of our everyday. Look...

Consider the power of rulers who speak with grace and use their authority for justice and truth. Such a person is worthy of praise, and worthy of honor. How majestic is the One who carries the power of Truth to people, who depend on the wisdom of God to rule the heart of the king. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about o...

The glory of God is displayed in the heavens, in the humility of Jesus to be a man and in the forever life we even now can live. Life, light and love are more than what we think or see or feel. They are the eternal presence of the everylasting, neverending, all powerful, always present God of the Universe. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica...

Let’s be honest. When things are hard and we seem to be losing on every side; when everything goes wrong and we are unable to change the circumstances in which we find ourselves it is easy to think God has left us alone. He has turned His back. He isn’t paying attention right now. This Psalm cries out for God’s attention – to wake up. Yet, listen closely to the last line – rescue me because of You...