Dr. David Jeremiah

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Lose No Time!​

May 14, 2025

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But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:16, NLT

Recommended Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:7-12


According to Guinness World Records, In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust is the world’s longest book, with more than 1.2 million words. Depending on the edition, it can span more than 4,000 pages. To read it, you need a sturdy lap, a strong pair of glasses, and rare determination.

Why not study God’s Word instead? It’s small enough to hold in your hand, yet we never tire of its ever-fresh words. The reason the Bible constantly renews us is simple—it was inspired by the Holy Spirit who also indwells us and enables us to understand its message. It’s possible to devote your life to studying the Bible without its transforming effect on your heart. To some, it’s just an ancient book. But to the Spirit-filled believer, the Holy Spirit tutors us. The apostle Paul wrote, “For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets…. We have received God’s Spirit…so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us” (1 Corinthians 2:10-12, NLT).

As you read the Bible, ask the Spirit to shine His flashlight on the truths He wants you to see today.

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
Charles Ryrie

Daily Devotion: Hyssop

Some of the flowers mentioned in the Bible are unknown to us in the West....

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Hyssop​

May 17, 2025

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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psalm 51:7

Recommended Reading: Exodus 12:21-28


Some of the flowers mentioned in the Bible are unknown to us in the West. Hyssop is an example of a flowering plant known in the Middle East and southern Europe but unfamiliar to us. It is a shrub-like plant up to two feet tall with woody stems which grow upright, producing leaves and small fragrant flowers in the summer. Cutting and bundling the stems with their leaves intact produces a brush-like tool for dipping and “painting” liquids.

In Egypt, on the night of the first Passover, the Hebrew slaves were instructed to take “a bunch of hyssop,” dip it in a basin of blood from a sacrificial lamb, and spread the blood on the doorposts of their house (Exodus 12:22). The blood would be a sign to “the destroyer” to pass over that house (verse 23). David recalled that imagery when his own sins were found out and he needed to be cleansed: “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.”

Thank God today that Jesus is the sacrificial Lamb of God whose blood takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29).


‘Twas grace that gave me to the Lamb, who all my sorrows took.
Philip Doddridge

Daily Devotion: Hyssop

Some of the flowers mentioned in the Bible are unknown to us in the West....

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