Malachi – Chapter 4

But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. Malachi 4:2 – More promises from God to those who follow Him. Malachi is a book that opens our eyes to the ways we can rob God and the outcomes that follow such actions. It also shows how we can serve Him faithfully and receive all that we need because of our obedience. While you may have made the choice to follow God in the past, make it again today. Reconfirm it in your heart and your walk with God that He is what you are after in life and He has your life. Then tomorrow do the same. Make sure each day you are choosing to intentionally follow God because if we aren’t pursing Him with our day, we are wasting our day. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 580

For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. Malachi 4:1 – Evil will someday be no more. While that truth seems so far from the reality we exist in today, we must take note that God has already begun this work. Something wonderful has happened between when Malachi wrote these words and us reading them today. Jesus came. For Malachi and the people of his day they had just the hope a Messiah would someday come. We now have their hope as our reality. Jesus has come and already conquered death and the enemy. One day when He returns He will then destroy our enemy once and for all. This is the hope we can bank on today. Yes, evil is still present and our enemy is still finding victories, but Jesus has won and has promised a day is coming when all this evil will be no more. So take heart in the trials knowing God is with you, the future is set, and one day we’ll be able to exist in a place with no evil. Until that day though, know I’m praying for your victory over the enemies attacks today. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2127