People spend more time these days
reading Magazines, News Papers, Forbes, Gossips... as they do reading
the very book of life (the Bible) . Some have taken the time to break
Biblical scriptures in the form of a daily devotional for your ease.
A daily devotional basically is an explanation of human connection to
the Bible ( A book writen about God.) Practice makes perfect. As soon
as you start, you will want to kick yourself for not starting
earlier. These are the 5 things a good daily devotional should or
most have.
1. Based Only On The Bible: Some you
will find a single Bible scripture followed by an explanation of the
human connection to that particular scripture, some there is a Bible
scripture through out the daily devotional explaining each phrase or
paragraph and yet in some you will find Bible reference. The point
here is to understand what the writer is trying to explain to you
about the Bible.
2. Does Not Contradict The Bible: You
will find out that some of the daily devotional on the internet are
trying to contradict the Bible rather than try to explain it. Don't
read those ones. Look for ones say two that are focused on explaining
the Bible. What you want to understand is the Bible not the dailydevotional. So the daily devotional most be in accordance with the
Bible.
3. Based On Life Issues: Because we are
talking here about the Bible, a good daily devotional most not
necessarily be talking about hell, heaven, death. It most be based on
every day issues of life like marriages, finding a good partner,
living a healthy life. As humans all we know is living, we don't know
about heaven, hell, so we should be humble enough to talk about what
we know rather than saying somethiung we have no idea about. A good
daily devotional writer spends his time searching the Bible for
issues related to life.
4. Answer Real Life Questions: We all
came and met this world. The only way we can find out things for
ourselves is to ask questions. A good daily devotional is not one
that is just talking about the Bible but one that is finding out what
people are in search for in the Bible and then explaining it to them.
5. Keeps it simple: A good dailydevotional does not go into complicated scriptural explanation but
centers itself around the simplicity of the Bible. Some of you might
say here ''what do you mean by keeps it simple, life is a complicated
process.'' Yes, life is a complicated process thats why someone who
wants to take the time to share the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
most keep it to the A, B, C's of English easy to read and understand.
There you have it. The 5 things a good
daily devotional most have. There are more, maybe you want to add
your own in the comment section. Feel free to do that.
Here is a list of the good ones I
already found. You can read these ones or look for your own.
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