Issue 1488 – Boxes and Tins – July 2, 2024
May you find the balance that enables you to be childlike in your faith while growing in maturity.
Daily devotionals from Scripture to nourish your faith, deepen your prayer life, and grow in God's grace.


Every day, Scripture speaks to ordinary life. Gleanings From the Word is a daily devotional drawn from the Bible and written for people who live in the middle of things — work, family, struggle, and ordinary Monday mornings.
Kevin Corbin has been writing these devotionals since January 1, 2001. The aim is simple: stay close to the text, say what is there, and trust that God meets us where we live.
The Lord loves ordinary people. He must, because He made so many of us.
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Hallelu Yah
Soli Deo Gloria
by Kevin Corbin · Published 2 July 2024 · Last modified 30 June 2026
May you find the balance that enables you to be childlike in your faith while growing in maturity.
by Kevin Corbin · Published 1 July 2024 · Last modified 30 June 2026
I didn’t choose my birthplace and citizenship. They were granted because my parents were Canadian and birthed me here. My heavenly citizenship was granted because God called me, and by His grace, I was saved by faith in Jesus. He paid the entry fee to allow me to enter that kingdom.
by Kevin Corbin · Published 29 June 2024 · Last modified 30 June 2026
Jesus’s teachings are revolutionary and life-changing. Where they have been followed, they have changed the world.
by Kevin Corbin · Published 28 June 2024 · Last modified 30 June 2026
How much of that precious time have we wasted instead of investing it in what God planned for us? We can’t take back the time we’ve misspent, but we can take control of the time we have left.
by Kevin Corbin · Published 27 June 2024 · Last modified 30 June 2026
At the same time he braked, the moose saw the car. The moose quickly applied his own brakes but couldn’t maintain his balance on the ice.
by Kevin Corbin · Published 26 June 2024 · Last modified 30 June 2026
It isn’t just our physical bodies that require regular use; our spiritual lives need them as well.
by Kevin Corbin · Published 25 June 2024 · Last modified 30 June 2026
The big old sandbox had undergone a transition. It was full of giant-sized kids who had taken cardboard boxes and made a fort in the sand.
by Kevin Corbin · Published 24 June 2024 · Last modified 30 June 2026
Evan reached the end of the puddle, looked at his mom, and then turned back the way he had just come. He stomped and splashed all the way back to the end of the puddle.
by Kevin Corbin · Published 22 June 2024 · Last modified 30 June 2026
As I walked around the lake, I witnessed a heartbreaking scene unfold. A single ducking, either separated from its family or orphaned, was swimming along the lakeshore and in obvious distress. It kept peeping for its mother.
by Kevin Corbin · Published 21 June 2024 · Last modified 30 June 2026
The legendary preacher Charles Spurgeon once said, “Discernment is not simply a matter of telling the difference between what is right and wrong; rather, it is the difference between right and almost right.”