Dust and Glory Date: Friday, October 16, 2026 Readings: 2 Corinthians 12 | Psalm 90 Paul opens this chapter reluctantly describing a stunning spiritual experience, being caught up to the third heaven, and then pivots to something far less glamorous: a “thorn in my flesh” (2 Corinthians 12:7). We don’t know what Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Cheerful Giving Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026 Readings: 2 Corinthians 9 | Psalm 89:19-52 Paul is writing about a hot topic: Money. But he does it without any guilt trip. The Corinthians had promised to help the struggling believers in Jerusalem, and Paul wants their generosity to be real, not reluctant. Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
The Joy of Open Hands Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2026 Readings: 2 Corinthians 8 | Psalm 89:1-18 Paul has a fundraising problem (sounds familiar), and he solves it by telling a story about joy. The churches of Macedonia, such as Philippi and Thessalonica, were poor and had suffered persecution. Yet “their overflowing joy and Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Groaning Toward Glory Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2026 Readings: 2 Corinthians 5 | Psalm 88 Paul uses the language of tents. Our earthly bodies are temporary shelters, and in them “we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling” (2 Corinthians 5:2). Tent-making was his trade, and he knows how Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Cracked Pots and Priceless Cargo Date: Monday, October 12, 2026 Readings: 2 Corinthians 4 | Psalm 87 “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7). In Paul’s world, clay jars were the cheap, disposable containers of Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Comfort Is Contagious Date: Sunday, October 11, 2026 Click here for the backstory on Paul's second letter to the Corinthians from the Bible Project. Readings: 2 Corinthians 1 | Psalm 86 Paul’s second letter to Corinth opens with praise, not polish: “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
