Day 20 – The God Who Stays
The God Who Stays Abraham is one hundred and seventy-five years old when he dies. The text says he breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. Full of years. It is one of the most peaceful epitaphs in Scripture […]
Day 19 – God Will Provide the Lamb
God Will Provide the Lamb. There are chapters in the Bible that you read differently depending on where you are in life. Genesis 22 is one of them. When you are young and faith is easy, it reads like a story about obedience. When you have loved someone so fiercely that losing them would undo […]
Day 18 – Fire, Salt, and the Laugh That Changed
Fire, Salt and the Laugh That Changed Yesterday we left Abraham walking with God toward Sodom, interceding for a city full of people he didn’t know. He bargained God down to ten righteous people. If there were ten, the city would be spared. Today we find out there weren’t ten. There was one family. And […]
Day 17 – When You Try to Help God Along
When You Try To Help God Along Yesterday, Abram stood under a sky full of stars and believed the impossible promise of God. It was one of the great moments of faith in the entire Bible. Today, we find out what happens when the waiting gets too long. Because the promise was made in Genesis […]
Day 16 – The Promise That Started Everything
The Promise That Started Everything We have spent twelve days in the book of Job. Twelve days of suffering and silence and whirlwind and restoration. And now we step back into Genesis and the air changes completely. Job was a man tested in a life already built. Abram is a man called into a life […]
Day 15 – I Had Heard. Now I Have Seen.
I Had Heard. Now I Have Seen. We have been in the book of Job for twelve days. Twelve days of suffering, argument, silence, accusation, poetry, and thunder. And today it ends. Not with a tidy explanation. Not with God revealing the reason behind the suffering. But with something far more transformative than an explanation. […]
Day 14 – Where Were You?
Where Were You? For thirty-seven chapters, Job has been asking God to speak. He has cried out, accused, defended, mourned, and waited. His friends have filled the silence with bad theology. Elihu has filled it with better theology. And all of it, all of it has been the sound of human beings trying to speak […]
Day 13 – Listen. The Thunder Is Saying Something.
Listen. The Thunder Is Saying Something. Elihu is still speaking. And by now, Job and his friends have probably stopped expecting much from any voice in the room. They have been at this for thirty-four chapters. Everyone has said their piece. Everyone has run dry. And here is this young man, still going. Listen. The […]
Day 12 – The Voice You Didn’t Expect
The Voice You Didn’t Expect For thirty-one chapters, the conversation has had three voices on one side and Job on the other. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar have taken turns explaining Job’s suffering, accusing his character, and demanding his repentance. Job has answered every one of them. And now all four of them have run dry. […]
Day 11 – The Life You Used to Have
The Life You Used to Have There is a particular kind of grief that has no name. It is not the grief of losing someone. It is the grief of losing a version of yourself — the person you used to be, in a life that used to feel like it had God’s warmth all […]
