The July 2025 Refreshing Daily in God’s Word will be the last issue of the devotional. Pastor Michael Rouse retired June 29, 2025. At the present time, Mountain View Baptist Church does not have anyone to continue this ministry.
We appreciate all the support and prayers that you have given for this ministry since 2007 when it first began. We pray the devotionals have been a blessing and have brought you closer in your walk with the Lord.
In the future, the Lord may allow the devotional to return. In the meantime, we are asking for your prayers for the man that God chooses for our church.
Thank you and God bless you!
Key Verse: Verse 16– “But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.”
Following a great victory, King Cyrus of Persia took as prisoners a noble prince, his wife, and their children. When they were brought into the leader’s tent to stand before him, Cyrus said to the prince, “What will you give me if I set you free?” He replied, “I will give you half of all that I possess.” “And what will you give me if I release your children?” continued Cyrus. “Your Majesty, I will give you all that I possess.” The king questioned him further, “But what will you give me if I set your wife at liberty?” Looking at the one he loved so dearly, the prince replied without hesitation, “If you will restore my wife to freedom, I will give you my life.” Cyrus was so moved by his devotion that he released the entire family without asking recompense. That evening the prince said to his wife, “Did you not think Cyrus a very handsome man?” “I did not notice him,” she answered. “Why, my dear, where were your eyes?” exclaimed her husband. She replied, “I had eyes only for the one who said he would lay down his life for me.”
Christian friend, the Lord Jesus has laid down His life for you and for me. It is not what He might do, but what He has already done. He has redeemed us with His precious blood and delivered us from the condemnation of an eternal hell. O how this should call forth our unbroken gaze! May we never be enthralled by the baubles of this world! Instead, may we say, “I have eyes only for the One who laid down His life for me.”
What to do:
✞Have your eyes only for the Lord.
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