SDA Daily Devotion

05/29/2026

Many excuse themselves for keeping Sunday by saying, "My father and grandfather were good Christians, and they died keeping Sunday. They will be saved, and I am willing to run the risk of doing as they did. The whole world keeps Sunday; and I am as well off as the rest of the members of my church." But will these excuses be accepted in the Judgment? No, no. Had their fathers had the light and the messages of warning which God has sent to His people in these last days, they would, if they were candid, God-fearing men, have obeyed the commandments of God. Our fathers are not accountable for the light they never received, or for the messages of warning they never heard; and shall their habits and customs be thought worthy of respect merely because they have been handed down from generation to generation? . . .

Special truths have been adapted to the conditions of the nations as they have existed. The present truth, which is a test to the people of this generation, was not a test to the people of generations far back. . . .

05/29/2026

He who has God for his friend and helper can afford to spend a long winter of chilling neglect, abuse, and persecution. By the grace which Christ imparts, he can maintain his faith and trust in God under the sorest trials. He recalls the Saviour's example, and he feels that he can endure affliction and persecution if he may thus gain simplicity of character, lowliness of heart, and an abiding trust in Jesus. The triumph of Christian faith is to suffer, and be strong; to submit, and thus conquer; to be killed all the day long, and yet to live; to bear the cross, and thus win the crown of immortal glory.

05/28/2026

If we love God and keep His commandments, we need not expect the world to be in sympathy with us, any more than it was with Christ. . . . Because the truth contradicts the doctrines of men and condemns their unrighteous practices, it excites the most bitter opposition. The majority, even of those who bear Christ's name, are unwilling to follow His example of self-denial and cross-bearing; and as they become more and more alienated from Him, they cannot distinguish between the heavenly and the earthly; their peace is disturbed by the fact that there is a people that serve God and renounce every sinful practice. Men who are trampling upon God's requirements feel a constant rebuke from the course of those who render obedience to Him; and this is why such enmity is manifested against all who are true to God. For this reason the Pharisees rejected Christ, and the same spirit still exists, and will continue to exist until the close of time. . . . The most bitter and cruel persecution always comes from those who have the form of religion without the spirit and power of godliness

05/28/2026

God has presented in His word sacred truths, and He expects us to accept them without regard to our own convenience, or good name, or worldly profit. Whenever a doctrine or duty is brought before us, the all-important question to be decided is, Is it enforced by the word of God? Does the Lord require this of us? If so, whatever may be the cross involved, we should unhesitatingly accept it.

05/28/2026

05/26/2026

Perfect obedience to the law of God is the test by which it is known that our love is perfect toward Christ. The Father reveals His love to Christ by receiving and welcoming the friends of Christ as His friends. The Father is fully satisfied with the atonement that Christ has made. He suffered the penalty of the law in order that man might have an opportunity to exercise repentance towards God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. In behalf of sinners Christ has borne hardships, insults, calumny, abuse, an misrepresentation. He was refused by those He came to save, rejected by His own nation. The Lord of glory was put to a most shameful death, and God Himself was in Christ, suffering with His only-begotten Son, in order to reconcile the world unto Himself. All this was done in order that fallen man might have another chance by which to redeem himself. Christ imputes His righteousness to the repentant, believing soul, and he who receives Christ becomes the friend of God.

05/24/2026

Satan will come in among us, and sow discord if he can. How shall we resist him? By each cultivating love and forbearance in his own heart toward his brethren. If you see that one of your brethren is in fault, do not turn from him and speak against him; but see how much good you can do him by treating him tenderly. Instead of allowing selfish feelings to arise and seeking to preserve personal dignity, let self drop out of sight. Jesus with His long human arm encircles the fallen race and seeks to connect them with the throne of the Infinite. This is the work that you should be engaged in. Do not disappoint Jesus by your dissensions.

Even though you think you are right, you are not to urge your individual ideas to the front, so that they will cause discord. Do not take the position that you cannot err. All are liable to make mistakes; all need to anoint their eyes with the eye salve spoken of by the True Witness, that they may see themselves as they are in God’s sight.
Here are two brethren laboring together. Will these brethren, if the spirit of Christ reigns in their hearts, be found warring against each other? Will they cherish envy, evil surmisings, and hard feelings against each other? Impossible. Neither one will possess exalted views of himself while he undervalues his brother. Each will esteem the other better than himself. [John 13:34, 35 quoted. The love here spoken of is not that sentimentalism, that low order of love, that attracts the affections from Christ and places them upon one another. The love here described is pure; it arises from having the affections centered upon Jesus. . . .

05/23/2026

A blessed sabbath brethren.
It is a sad thing when those who profess to be Christians, especially those entrusted with leading God’s flock, allow jealousy and envy to overshadow the spirit of Christ. Instead of encouraging and supporting the work God is doing through faithful leaders and devoted brethren, some seek to find fault, criticize, and repost their work publicly in an effort to gain attention or followers.

Yet they fail to realize that when God’s hand is upon a ministry, no amount of criticism can stop His purpose. What the enemy intends for evil, God is able to turn for good. The very posts meant to discourage or tear down may instead lead more souls to the truth and to the ministries of those faithfully serving the Lord.
Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.Psalm 105:15 KJV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. Galatians 5:22 KJV
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. James 3:16 KJV
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good. Genesis 50:20 KJV
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31 KJV

May we remember that true leadership in Christ is rooted in humility, love, and a desire to uplift one another in the work of God, not compete against it. For whom God has blessed, no man can curse.

05/23/2026

In 1833, ... the last of the signs appeared which were promised by the Saviour as tokens of His second advent. Said Jesus, “The stars shall fall from heaven.” And John in the Revelation declared, as he beheld in vision the scenes that should herald the day of God, “The stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.” This prophecy received a striking and impressive fulfilment in the great meteoric shower of November 13, 1833. That was the most extensive and wonderful display of falling stars which has ever been recorded; “the whole firmament, over all the United States, being then, for hours, in fiery commotion! No celestial phenomenon has ever occurred in this country, since its first settlement, which was viewed with such intense admiration by one class in the community, or with so much dread and alarm by another.” “Its sublimity and awful beauty still linger in many minds.... Never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell toward the earth; east, west, north, and south, it was the same. In a word, the whole heavens seemed in motion.... The display, as described in Professor Silliman’s Journal, was seen all over North America.... From two o’clock until broad daylight, ... an incessant play of dazzlingly brilliant luminosities was kept up in the whole heavens.”—R. M. Devens, American Progress; or, The Great Events of the Greatest Century, ch. 28, pars. 1-5.... – {Mar 151.2}
Thus was displayed the last of those signs of His coming, concerning which Jesus bade His disciples, “When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.” After these signs, John beheld, as the great event next impending, the heavens departing as a scroll, while the earth quaked, mountains and islands removed out of their places, and the wicked in terror sought to flee from the presence of the Son of man. – {Mar 151.3}
But the day and the hour of His coming Christ has not revealed.... The exact time of the second coming of the Son of man is God’s mystery. – {Mar 151.4}