A 15 day devotion on Matthew 6:19-34, exploring the benefits of pursuing a knowledge of God. This is the fifth study in the series, “Knowing God”.

The Promise of Knowing God [PDF 1.2MB]

Dear Friends,

It is natural for my written ministry to revolve around my pastoral care for the church. The expositional studies I teach the fellowship must necessarily determine the material I commit to writing. Although it is my long term goal to publish an exposition on all 66 books of the Bible, circumstance does not permit me to begin this endeavour at the moment. I am presently working through two different series on Sundays: (1) Knowing God; (2) and The Church. As you can see, they are topical studies which precludes me from expounding an entire book of the Bible. However, each series is expository - the expositions are just based on a variety of Scriptures.

I have started to write a “book” of devotions per week. Each book is based on the upcoming Sunday’s exposition and is helpfully formatted to follow the pattern of “daily devotions”. I believe this will assist the average reader to slowly work through a passage of Scripture. Although the length of the devotions vary, it still only takes approximately 10 minutes to read each daily portion. You will also discover each book will have a different number of devotions - sometimes 15 and other times just 3. It all depends on the amount of material I have to cover for each exposition. 

It is common for Christians to use “daily devotions” for their private time with the Lord. There are many books and online articles available today for such a purpose. So why should you try expoundit.com? You will discover these devotions differ from most others in their expositional content - not only will you receive practical counsel, you will also receive an understanding of what God says in His Word. Has it not been your experience that many of the devotional books you have read devote most of the writing to application, without hardly any reference to the meaning of God’s Word? In our devotional, you will get the application that naturally arises out of the expositions.

I have only one request: Be kind in your literary criticism of the writings. In order to put each book of devotions online according to a seven day deadline, I do not have the time to give attention to editing the material. There is much that could be subtracted, added or changed, but I am stuck according to the time limits and forced to leave you with my initial thoughts for each devotion. I hope you will look beyond the mistakes to the great truths I am attempting to communicate.

 Let me know if you receive a blessing through this ministry.

 Faithfully,

 Jared Smith