Poetic Meditations on Selected Scripture

A Thirty-Day Devotional

John P. Davis

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781725298644, 9781725298651
• eBook ISBN: 9781725298668
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Religious Poetry
• Index: Literature

This devotional of poetic mediations grew out of forty-five years of expository preaching and self-reflection. The author's intermittent attempts at poetry reveal both his best and worst parts. These poems reflect experience as a follower of Jesus, an inward battle with sin, shame, sadness, defeats; yet, always the word of God leads to the gospel of Jesus Christ and his victory, his forgiveness, his power, his love, and his hope. Never without the realization of sinfulness and the sufficiency of the work of Jesus Christ, many live daily on a continuum between these two poles of striving by faith to rest in Christ and agonizing over the heart's inclination to wander. By God's grace and through his Spirit, that movement may be more toward victory than defeat.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Day One—Psalm 40:6
• Day Two—Psalm 51
• Day Three—Psalm 63
• Day Four—Mark 2:22–38
• Day Five—Mark 3:22–30
• Day Six—In the Family of Jesus
• Day Seven—Mark 4:3–20
• Day Eight—Mark 7:2–23
• Day Nine—Mark 8:31–35
• Day Ten—Mark 9:1–13
• Day Eleven—The Jesus Way to Greatness
• Day Twelve—Mark 11:12–25
• Day Thirteen—Mark 12:18–27
• Day Fourteen—Mark 12:41–44
• Day Fifteen—Mark 13:1–13
• Day Sixteen—Mark 13:32–37
• Day Seventeen—Mark 14:22–26
• Day Eighteen—Luke 2:10
• Day Nineteen—Luke 19:41–44
• Day Twenty—John 1:1–20
• Day Twenty-One—John 3:16
• Day Twenty-Two—John 5
• Day Twenty-Three—John 9
• Day Twenty-Four—Acts 1:15–26
• Day Twenty-Five—Acts 2:22–38
• Day Twenty-Six—Acts 3:12–26
• Day Twenty-Seven—Acts 5:29–31
• Day Twenty-Eight—Acts 15:1–21
• Day Twenty-Nine—Romans 1:1–7
• Day Thirty—Romans 6:23