Category: Devotion of the Day

Fruit of the Land

How long are ye slack to possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you?
Joshua 18:3

We ought not stand on Jordan’s stormy banks casting a wishful eye to Canaan’s fair and happy land, where our possessions lie. “Dwelling in Beulah Land” is possible here and now. Living in Canaan may be a fact today.

It is also a fight, the fight of faith, as we follow our Joshua, the Captain of our salvation and “possess our possessions.”

And there will be fruit. “This is the fruit of it,” said the spies (Num. 13:27). “The fruit of the Spirit” it is today (Gal. 5:22, 23). Alas, so many are still in the wilderness, longing for garlic instead of grace, melons instead of manna!

The best advertisement of the land is the fruit of it. Where are your milk and honey? Men will believe the fact when from the fight you bring the fruit.

The daily devotions are from Day by Day by Vance Havner. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1953.

Come and Drink

My soul thirsteth.
Psalm 63:1

If any man thirst…
John 7:37

“But how can my thirsting soul find God? He is too abstract, I can form no mental picture of Him. How can I drink of the Living Water?”

That is why Jesus came. In Him the Word became flesh. No man comes to the Father but by Him, and whosoever comes to Him will in no wise be cast out.

“If any man thirst, let Him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.” Thirsting, coming, drinking, believing, overflowing—the thirsting soul comes and receives and believes that it has received (Mk. 11:24). The overflowing is a natural – a supernatural – consequence – “shall flow.”

A little tenement child in a hospital, presented with a large glass of cool, rich milk, asked hesitantly, “How deep may I drink?” Drink deeply of the Living Water!

“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.”

The daily devotions are from Day by Day by Vance Havner. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1953.