The great devotional writer Oswald Chambers said, “If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior.” Cultivating the interior is the essence of devotion. True devotion is knowing that you will never be able to repay Christ for Calvary, but giving it a daily attempt. It is, as David MacIntyre puts it, the time in which we “discover the excellence of God’s character, and by beholding Him we also allow Him to transform the soul.” If the soul needs “interior cultivation” then devotion is the soil in …