Devotional Scripture Index
The Daily Search for Wondrous Things is a devotional series of books written by Jason Hardin designed to give you a daily dose of fuel for your journey as a disciple of Jesus. Each volume provides three months’ worth of practical encouragement with reflections that flow in a simple pattern:
- Sundays: from the Psalms
- Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays: from the Old Testament
- Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays: from the New Testament
Volumes 1 (Open My Eyes) and 2 (Incline My Heart) are currently available, with more volumes to come. For ease of reference, here is a Scripture index of the series with volume number referenced at the end of each title [e.g. (2:15) = Volume 2, page 15].
GENESIS
- 1: The Verbs on Page 1 Matter (2:15)
- 8: “But God Remembered Noah” (2:90)
- 13: Paradise Was a Package Deal (2:69)
- 43: In My Hand No Price I Bring (2:180)
- 48: The God Who Has Been My Shepherd (1:28)
EXODUS
- 5: Just Because He Hasn’t, Doesn’t Mean He Won’t (2:38)
- 9: If You Knew the Hail Was Going to Fall Tomorrow (2:205)
- 37: The Craftsman Whose Work Outlived Moses (and Joshua, and Samuel, and David) (2:130)
LEVITICUS
- 1: “There I Will Meet With You” (1:120)
- 17: The Lesson of the Lambs in Leviticus (2:73)
- 19: What Does Holiness Look Like? (2:174)
NUMBERS
- 2: In What Direction is Your Camp Facing? (1:105)
- 9: Respecting God Enough to Wait (2:100)
- 13: Surrounded by Doubters and Pessimists, Be a Caleb (2:42)
- 21: The Preventative Power of Patience (1:94)
- 33: A Fishhook Lodged In My Eye (2:104)
DEUTERONOMY
- 8: Tested, That We Might Know (1:65)
- 17: Getting the Bible “Through” Me (1:22)
- 28: Overtaken By Blessings (2:25)
- 34: How Do You Summarize an Incredible 120-Year-Life? (1:134)
JOSHUA
- 3: “You Have Not Passed This Way Before” (2:201)
- 4: “What Do Those Stones Mean to You?” (2:115)
- 11: The Difference Between Dying in the Wilderness and Inheriting the Promised Land (1:80)
- 21: Not One Word Did (or Will) Fail (2:185)
- 24: Ancient Fuel for Today’s Zeal (1:148)
JUDGES
- 7: “We Don’t Have Enough” (1:162)
- 16: “Like Any Other Man” (2:217)
1 SAMUEL
- 1: To What (or Whom) Are Hurtful People Driving You? (1:116)
- 7: What’s an Ebenezer? (1:180)
- 13: Sometimes, the Most Faithful Thing We Can Do Is Wait (1:86)
- 18: With What Sort of Heart Will You Respond When the Spears are Hurled in Your Direction? (2:79)
2 SAMUEL
- 12: There’s No Such Thing as a Secret Sin (1:76)
1 KINGS
- 3: “Ask What I Shall Give You” (2:121)
- 18: Who’s the Real Troubler? (2:153)
- 19: Be Careful With “I’m the Only One” (2:136)
2 KINGS
- 17: We Become What We Worship (2:197)
- 18: Can It Bear Your Weight? (1:158)
- 22: God’s Book, Your Heart (1:72)
- 22: If You Never Open the Box… (2:65)
- 24: You Should Remember (2:190)
2 CHRONICLES
- 18: Tell Me the Truth (2:96)
- 20: Don’t Lose Sight of the Who (1:186)
- 22: On Guard Against Being Undone (1:42)
- 33: “Paying” Attention (1:152)
- 34: The Great Potential of a Tender Heart (2:147)
EZRA
- 3: Make a Beginning (1:17)
- 10: Ezras Still Need Shecaniahs (2:20)
NEHEMIAH
- 1: Don’t Skip Chapter 1 (2:167)
- 2: Developing the Knee-Jerk Reaction to Pray (2:213)
- 7: An Easily Overlooked Example Worth Imitating This Week (1:144)
- 8: Sunday’s Song, Monday’s Strength (2:32)
ESTHER
- 5: Blessed Beyond Measure, But Miserable (1:61)
JOB
- 1: How Would 1:1 of Your Book Begin? (1:51)
- 12: The Subtle Danger That Comes With Being “At Ease” (1:100)
- 23: Flickers of Faith in the Dark (1:190)
- 38: The Darkening Effect of Words Without Knowledge (1:176)
PSALMS
- 1: The Difference Delight Makes (2:47)
- 5: Ever Sing. For Joy. (1:142)
- 5: Not Many, But There Is One (2:29)
- 16: Don’t Settle for Pleasures With an Expiration Date (2:77)
- 24: “Open the Gates!” (1:128)
- 32: Don’t Clog God’s Blessings (1:156)
- 33: The Psalm 33 Trail (2:126)
- 36: “From God to the Road” (2:94)
- 49: Choose Your Shepherd Carefully (1:26)
- 55: The God Who is Willing to Bear the Burdens You Are Willing to Cast (2:62)
- 56: Three Seeds for Your Prayers This Week (1:40)
- 61: A Quiet, Reverent Look in the Rearview Mirror (1:113)
- 62: For God Alone. My Soul. Waits. (1:184)
- 63: Are You Thirsty? (1:98)
- 65: The Awesome in the Ordinary (2:144)
- 66: He is Awesome; Come and See (1:11)
- 73: Don’t Forget, We Know Where the River Ends (1:84)
- 91: The Shelter and the Shadow (2:109)
- 106: Are You Walking Through a Museum or Looking in a Mirror? (1:69)
- 111: Study. Appreciate. Delight. (1:170)
- 116: A Simple Lesson From a Child’s Cough (2:211)
- 119: Wondrous Things (2:13)
- 127: Don’t Starve Yourself on the Crumbs of Anxious Toil (2:161)
- 135: Behold, Believe, Become (1:55)
- 140: The Light that Guides the Upright Through the Darkest Situations (2:178)
- 147: What King Delights in a Doorkeeper? (2:195)
PROVERBS
- 13: Whoever Walks with the Wise Becomes Wise (2:111)
- 17: Private Information: The Currency of Gossips, Whisperers, Slanderers, and Busybodies (1:124)
- 25: “I Appreciate You” (2:58)
- 31: Charm is Deceitful and Beauty is Vain, But… (2:86)
ISAIAH
- 9: God’s Answer to the Darkness (2:140)
- 10: Wrenches Don’t Sing Their Own Praises (1:138)
- 32: Like Water in a Dry Place (2:50)
- 36: Ancient Trash Talk and the Ever-Relevant Answer (1:90)
- 59: As Truth Continues to Stumble… (1:172)
- 60: His Planting, His Work, For His Glory (1:57)
JEREMIAH
- 5: When Our Faces Are Harder Than Rock (2:163)
- 18: “Can I Not Do With You as This Potter Has Done?” (2:157)
- 43: When the Messenger is Mocked (1:130)
- 51: The World’s Greatest Empires, Like Utensils in His Hands (1:36)
LAMENTATIONS
- 5: From Lamentation to “But” to “Therefore” (1:109)
EZEKIEL
- 13: Consider the Source (1:194)
- 20: Full Eyes, Empty Hearts (1:13)
DANIEL
- 1: Today’s Resolve Shapes Tomorrow’s Reality (1:32)
JONAH
- 4: Do You Do Well to be Angry? (1:166)
HABAKKUK
- 1: “I Am Doing a Work In Your Days” (1:46)
- 1: I Want Eyes Like My Father’s Eyes Today (2:55)
MALACHI
- 4: The End? (2:221)
MATTHEW
- 1: Fulfillment Walked Among Us (1:19)
- 2: Herod Died. Jesus Lives. (2:17)
- 9: A Good Day to Pray for Compassion (1:49)
- 18: The Greatness of Lowliness (2:133)
MARK
- 5: “Tell Them How Much the Lord Has Done for You” (1:122)
- 5: You Have to Push Through the Crowd (2:52)
- 9: Not “If,” But “When” (1:150)
- 10: Bringing Children to Jesus is Never a Wasted Effort (1:92)
- 13: Remember What Matters to Jesus (1:178)
LUKE
- 4: Don’t Give the One Who’s Looking for “an Opportune Time” an Opportunity (2:138)
- 7: That Sort of Woman (1:30)
- 9: When You’re Given a Front Row Seat to Suffering… (1:78)
- 15: The One Who Has Been There Told Us So (1:132)
- 22: The Light of the World Gave Darkness an Hour (1:111)
JOHN
- 2: The Third Day (2:82)
- 4: “If You Knew” (1:192)
- 11: A Savior and Friend, Deeply Moved (2:215)
- 13: Jesus Knew (2:171)
- 14: When You Love Jesus, Expect Company (1:168)
- 18: Knowing All That Would Happen to Him… (1:59)
- 21: “What is That to You? You Follow Me!” (2:124)
ACTS
- 3: Why God Wants to Turn You (1:188)
- 6: Building Good Reputations: Block by Block, Day by Day (1:103)
- 8: When Joy and Grief Are Next Door Neighbors (2:88)
- 16: When the Foundations Are Shaken (2:165)
- 21: Living Rest Stops for the Heaven-Bound (2:56)
- 27: Sails Set in the Right Direction (2:22)
- 28: Unusual Kindness (1:53)
- 28: On Seeing Them… (1:126)
- 28: “What is This?” (2:118)
ROMANS
- 6: The Band Room of Your Body (1:24)
- 8: God, a 2-Year-Old, and a Terrifying Lawnmower (2:187)
- 9: The Family Story (2:113)
- 14: Opinions: Handle With Care (2:150)
- 16: The Faces of Romans 16 (2:59)
1 CORINTHIANS
- 1: The Bridge Between My Response and His Return (1:74)
- 1: The Heart Behind the Hardest Rebukes (2:159)
- 7: Securing the Gate of Your Heart (1:164)
- 8: The More You Know… (1:154)
- 12: The Body You’ll Need (2:192)
- 13: 1 Corinthians 13 Made Personal (2:27)
2 CORINTHIANS
- 1: The Comforted Comforters (2:102)
- 3: Living Letters From Jesus (1:140)
- 5: The Tent That Is Your Earthly Home (2:208)
- 12: Spent for Your Souls (2:142)
EPHESIANS
- 3: Rooted and Grounded … in What? (2:40)
- 6: Love Incorruptible in an All-Too-Corruptible World (2:98)
PHILIPPIANS
- 4: Known to Everyone … For What? (1:88)
COLOSSIANS
- 1: Stable, Steadfast, Not Shifting (1:63)
- 4: The Ripple Effects of Me on Me (2:176)
1 TIMOTHY
- 5: The Launching Point of a Terrible Trajectory (1:44)
2 TIMOTHY
- 2: “Be Strengthened” (1:96)
TITUS
- 2: Be More Than a Messenger; Be a Model (2:67)
- 3: Remind Them… (1:160)
PHILEMON
- Refreshed to Refresh (1:38)
HEBREWS
- 2: The Jesus of the Present Tense (1:146)
- 2: “Namely Jesus” (2:199)
- 7: The Priest Who Never Dies (1:82)
- 8: The Powerful Present Tense (2:92)
- 11: A Clear View of Him Who is Invisible (1:15)
- 11: Listen to the Witnesses Today (2:35)
- 13: How to Speak With Confidence Today (1:136)
1 PETER
- 1: Though You Do Not Now See Him… (1:182)
- 2: Beloved, Prepare for War (1:118)
- 2: Mindful of God (2:155)
2 PETER
- 2: Step By Step with the One Who Knows How (2:72)
1 JOHN
- 3: A Holy Destroyer (1:67)
- 4: Love Comes to Life (1:174)
- 5: His Commandments Are Not Burdensome (2:107)
2 JOHN
- 1: To Abide In or Go On Ahead? (2:183)
JUDE
- 1: Called. Loved. Kept. (1:107)
REVELATION
- 2: He Knows (2:44)
- 4: A Scene to Imagine When You Pray (1:34)
- 6: What Will Be Clear After Death (2:219)
- 9: The Saddest Summary of a Life You Can Imagine (2:75)
- 12: Don’t Believe Your Accuser (2:203)
- 21: Former Things (1:196)
- 22: Last Book, Last Page, Last Words (2:223)