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Today's Devotional

You will indeed drink my cup — Matthew 20:23 (Berean Bible Study).

Both the sons of Zebedee drank of the cup of persecution. St. James was put to death by the malice of Herod, and was the first of the apostles that gained the crown of martyrdom, cheerfully taking that cup of which he had long since told his Lord that he was most willing to drink. We have nothing whatever except the fact of his death [Acts 12:2]. Not a word of his preaching and his work. God calls us to different labors in the vineyard, some to become famous, some to be forgotten.

About the author and the source

First Thoughts, whose author is identified only as J.P., provides a short Bible reading for each day of the year—usually three lines or less—and a short commentary that indicates the gist of the text. J. P. wrote that the book: “assumes that the true Christian desires… that his ‘first thoughts’ should be holy thoughts.”