Category: Daily Devotion

  The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Psalm‬ ‭1‬:‭4‬  ‭‭– As I sit writing this devotional our family is on vacation and I’ll looking out over the Gulf of Mexico. This is my first time ever seeing an ocean/gulf/beach/anything bigger than a lake in Kansas. As I…

  Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes? Haggai‬ ‭2‬:‭3‬ ‭‭– Haggai is now speaking to the elderly group of God’s people that had returned back to Jerusalem after the exile. We learn that while…

  You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. Haggai‬ ‭1‬:‭9‬ ‭– Some historical context is key to understanding…

  O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit. Hosea 14:8 – For a book like Hosea where there we see God’s people turning so far away from a faithful walk after Him and giving…

But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior. Hosea 13:4 – Hosea is seeing something sad unfold in the lives of the people of Israel that we can see happen often in the lives of people today. Israel was in real need…

  Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.” Hosea 12:8 – One problem that Hosea found himself in during the time of his telling of his prophetic words was that Israel wasn’t struggling financially at this time. In…

  I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them. Hosea 11:4 – The language in this chapter feels different than the previous for we see the compassion of the Lord…

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you. Hosea‬ ‭10‬:‭12‬ ‭– While I’ve lived my whole life in the Midwest, gardening and farming are a couple things I know almost nothing about. So…

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins. Hosea 9:9 – Reading this verse with a 21st century lens won’t have the same impact as it would for someone in Hosea’s day. For us, we see the straightforward message of they have sinned deeply…

Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing. Hosea 8:12 – Israel at this time had devoted themselves to the creation of many idols of silver and gold to worship and trust in for their protection. They followed the way of neighboring nations…