- Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. Malachi 4:4 – The prophet has been calling God’s people to a serious change in behavior through this book. We’ve seen them turn to all sorts of sin and a turn from such sin needed to take place. In a conclusion of all that he’s said already, we see Malachi sum up the words with a simple command to remember. Remember the law that you’ve been given already. As in Micah 6, God had already told them what He wanted from His people, now it was time to remember His words and do them. This concept of remembering was also going to be extremely important for God’s people for new words were not going to be heard from the Lord for a long time after this. There was a gap of about 400 years of silence from the Lord to His people between the message of Malachi and the events of the New Testament. In that space of silence from the Lord, how were the people supposed to remain faithful? By remembering what God had already said. In our story, we to can remain faithful to God when it feels like He is being silent with us by remembering what He has already spoken to us. Often what we need isn’t a new revelation or new command from the Lord, we just need to remember what He’s already spoken to us. As we close out 2025 today, take time to remember what the Lord has taught you this past year and remember it in the new year. While I’m so grateful we have a God who is alive and still speaks to us, He also calls us to remember the words He has poured into us in the past. Praise the Lord that we serve a God whose words are faithful and true for all generations. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3322
- 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
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