HOSEA 12:6 – “So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.” THEME OF THE DAY: WAITING ON THE LORD. Waiting is hard, especially when we are in the depths of sorrow needing God’s comfort, in the depths of trial needing God’s strength, and in the depths of loneliness…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Old Testament
PSALM 56:1-4 – Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me; my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly. When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh…
JOB 16:1-4 – Then Job answered and said: “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.” THEME OF THE…
JOB 14:22 – He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.” THEME OF THE DAY: THE MISERABLE CHRISTIAN. Today’s scripture is the heart cry from Job. It occurs toward the middle of the Old Testament book bearing his name. Job is hurting. Job is complaining. Job is lamenting. By now in the story of Job,…
PSALM 50:21 – These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.” THEME OF THE DAY: OUR GLORIOUS AND TRUSTWORTHY GOD. There are four qualities in our God that will prove time and time again to be sources of encouragement when…
MALACHI 1:6–10 – “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ By offering polluted food upon my altar.…