It is common during Christmas to have a daily Scripture to read, which we call the Advent Calendar. The purpose, of course, is to help us to focus. To give us the Word of God to meditate upon. To ponder what the Lord says vs what the world is shouting at us. Here is one for you to use for Easter! Be truly Blessed this Easter season as you delight yourself in what the Lord has said to us.

April 9, 2025

  Daniel 3:14–20, 24–28

Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods and you do not worship the golden statue that I have set up? Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble to fall down and worship the statue that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire, and who is the god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

  The wonderful story continues….a 4th man shows up in the furnace…the believers in God are saved, and only the unbelievers perish. I wonder, could it be said the 3 Hebrew Children in this story were ‘resurrected’?

  Do YOU need a resurrection of some kind today? It’s coming…if you believe. He is risen…indeed.

April 8, 2025  John 8:12–20

Jesus spoke to the people, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” Then the Pharisees said to him, “You are testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid.” Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I have come from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. You judge by human standards; I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is valid; for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. In your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is valid. I testify on my own behalf, and the Father who sent me testifies on my behalf.” Then they said to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” He spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury of the temple, but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

April 4, 2025

John 7:1–2, 10, 25–30

After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. Now the Jewish festival of Booths was near.

But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but as it were in secret.

Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill? And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah? Yet we know where this man is from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.” Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

  Well, His hour DID come, on Good Friday, and WE are the beneficiaries! Then, on Resurrection Sunday, the rest of time began to unfold….

April 3, 2025 Psalm 20:7

In light of very current Presidential actions, the stock market is reeling, and news outlets are trying to keep up with all the analysis every political pundit has to offer. Every country on earth is now trying to figure out how to respond. Mankind’s collective wisdom is being called upon. But they are all missing the most important information. The Lord God!

For today’s Resurrection meditation, consider this:

Psalm 20:7 “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”

Some scholars consider this Scripture to be ‘idiomatic language,’ meaning that it refers to something other than the actual words, thus having additional meaning, sort of peculiar to the language itself.  Do not be fooled. Believe in God and believe in what He says to us. Our trust must not be in the power structures of mankind, but absolutely in the Lord God Almighty!  And this Old Testament language is amazingly current! It says so clearly what the New Testament tells us, especially at the ‘last supper’ of Jesus Christ, who Himself tells us, regardless of circumstance, to…remember Him!  No matter what happens here on earth…in your life…you would do well to remember Jesus Christ, and put your trust in Him, and let Hope carry the day, not fear.   I repeat: do not fear man or any of man’s power structures, but instead, put your trust and your hope and your faith…in Jesus Christ. Resurrection is just around the corner!

April 2, 2025 John 5:19–29

Jesus said to the Jews, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished. Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. The Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life.

“Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself; and he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not be astonished at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and will come out—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.”

April 1, 2025 Psalm 46:1–8

1 God is our refuge and strength, * a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be moved, * and though the mountains be toppled into the depths of the sea; 3 Though its waters rage and foam, * and though the mountains tremble at its tumult. 4 The LORD of hosts is with us; * the God of Jacob is our stronghold. 5 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, * the holy habitation of the Most High. 6 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be overthrown; * God shall help her at the break of day. 7 The nations make much ado, and the kingdoms are shaken; * God has spoken, and the earth shall melt away. 8 The LORD of hosts is with us; * the God of Jacob is our stronghold.