Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey

by Jerry Bridges

Do you want more substance to your daily devotional? Then you will appreciate this one-year devotional from Navigator author Jerry Bridges.

Each entry has been carefully selected from his best writings, connecting with you on a deeper level and encouraging personal discovery.

This quick daily read is full of inspiration, commitment, and transformation for men and women to grow in spiritual maturity.

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Hardcover, 336 pages

Published September 15th 2008 by NavPress (first published January 1st 2008)

tags: theology, spirituality, faith, christianity, religion, nonfiction, christian living, christian

Book Quotes

“We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.”

― Jerry Bridges

topics: God S Love, Obedience

“... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.”

― Jerry Bridges

topics: Holy Spirit

“A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.”

― Jerry Bridges

topics: Adoption, New Birth

“Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.”

― Jerry Bridges

“... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.”

― Jerry Bridges

topics: Faith, New Birth

“The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.”

― Jerry Bridges

topics: Faith, Holiness, Obedience

“When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.”

― Jerry Bridges

topics: Holiness

“We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.”

― Jerry Bridges

topics: God S Word, Humility

“Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit - do our respective tasks. Rather, we work as He enables us to work. His work lies behind all our work and makes our work possible.”

― Jerry Bridges

topics: Sanctification

“To remember no more is God's way of expressing absolute forgiveness.”

― Jerry Bridges

“We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him.”

― Jerry Bridges

“Micah 7:19 ... "You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn't just drop them over the side; He hurls them ...”

― Jerry Bridges

“God does not believe for us, but through His Spirit He creates spiritual life in us so that we can believe. Faith is the gift of God. It's part of the whole salvation package that God gives to us through the work of Christ for us and the work of the Holy Spirit in us. It's not our contribution, so to speak, to God's great plan of salvation. God does it all. It's part of the unsearchable riches of Christ.”

― Jerry Bridges

topics: Faith, Salvation

“All of us have a natural drift toward a performance-based relationship with God. We know we're saved by grace through faith - not by works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but we somehow get the idea that we earn blessings by our works. After throwing overboard our works as a means to salvation, we want to drag them back on board as a means of maintaining favor with God. Instead of seeing our own righteousness as table scraps to be dumped, we see it as leftovers to be used later to earn answers to prayer. We need to remind ourselves every day that God's blessings and answers to prayer come to us not on the basis of our works, but on the basis of the infinite merit of Jesus Christ.”

― Jerry Bridges

“This is devotion to God - the fear of God, which is an attitude of reverence and awe, veneration, and honor toward Him, coupled with an apprehension deep within our souls of the love of God for us, demonstrated preeminently in Christ's atoning death. These two attitudes complement and reinforce each other, producing within our souls an intense desire for this One who is so awesome in His glory and majesty, yet so condescending in His love and mercy.”

― Jerry Bridges

“What was in the cup Jesus drank at His crucifixion? It was the wrath of God.”

― Jerry Bridges

“when we think the curse for violating God's Law is too severe, it's because we don't understand God or the nature of sin. God”

― Jerry Bridges

“Scripture speaks of a holiness which we have in Christ before God and a holiness which we must strive after.”

― Jerry Bridges

“God never grants justification without also giving sanctification at the same time ... Sanctification in us begins as an instantaneous act of the Holy Spirit and is carried forward by His continued action in our lives.”

― Jerry Bridges

topics: Justification, Sanctification

“In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people."64”

― Jerry Bridges

Jerry Bridges

Jerry Bridges is an evangelical Christian author, speaker and staff member of The Navigators. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Pursuit of Holiness, which has sold more than one million copies. His devotional Holiness Day By Day garnered the 2009 ECPA Christian Book Award for the inspiration and gift category, and The Discipline Of Grace received a similar award in 1995 for the Christian living category.

Bridges earned his undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Oklahoma before serving as an officer in the United States Navy during the Korean War.

He joined Christian discipleship organization The Navigators in 1955, where he served as administrative assistant to the Europe Director, office manager for the headquarters office, Secretary-Treasurer of the organization, and as Vice President for Corporate Affairs before moving to a staff development position with the Collegiate Mission.
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