When God commanded the ravens to feed Elijah (1 Kings 17:4-6), something remarkable happened: God had to change the very nature of the raven. Ravens are scavengers. They feast on decaying carcasses, and they live to satisfy themselves (selfish nature). Yet at God’s word, a selfish bird became a giving one. A creature that ate decayed meat now carried good bread and meat.
God had to change raven's selfish nature into a giving nature, from...
My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant. Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant.” Genesis 18:3-5
God came with a heavy heart when he visited Abraham’s tent. The burden of passing judgement on a city like Sodom...
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up .. Isaiah 6:1When we stand at a crossroads in life, without a clear direction, no clear future, and facing the next big decision, what do we do? Prophet Isaiah found himself at the same crossroads when King Uzziah died. The safe and secure future suddenly crashed with the death of Uzziah. The hopes collapsed too. Yet that was the very moment Isaiah saw the...
"Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend." (Exodus 33:11)
The camp had gone quiet. Every man in Israel had closed his day. But Moses was only beginning his.
He lifted the flap of the Tent of Meeting and stepped into the dark. All day he had prepared for this hour, and now he stood alone in the silence, waiting.Then the air changed. A weight pressed on the tent walls, as though heaven were leaning down....
“And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” (Genesis 3:8)Every day, as the evening breeze stirred through Eden, the Lord God came walking in the garden. Adam knew that sound well. It was the sound of his Creator drawing near, and each time he heard it, he went out gladly to meet Him. How many...
“Now it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, ‘Bring me another vessel.’ And he said to her, ‘There is not another vessel.’ So the oil ceased.” (2 Kings 4:6)The oil did not stop first. Because there were no vessels the oil stopped. The oil stopped because there were no vessels left. The miracle was overflowing miracle, but the overflowing stopped because there were no more vessels left to pour it into....
The people of Israel were captivated by the outward displays of God’s power: the pillar of cloud, the pillar of fire, and the many wonders that accompanied them through the wilderness. Their eyes were fixed on the spectacle, and their hearts were drawn to the miraculous rather than to the One who sent it.Moses was different. For him, what others considered supernatural had become the ordinary rhythm of life. The cloud and the fire did not...
By the world’s standards, Jeremiah was a failure. He preached for decades, and few listened. Yet by God’s standard, he was one of the most successful prophets who ever lived.
Scripture tells us the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah through the reigns of Josiah and Jehoiakim, and all the way to the captivity of Judah. Kings rose and fell, and the nation’s fortunes shifted, but one thing never changed: God kept speaking, and Jeremiah kept...
And the spies gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. Numbers 13:32Whether the enemy is big or small, how does it matter to you? As if you are fighting the battle. God is fighting the battle for you. The battle was never yours to fight. God is...
“Behold, God is great, and we know him not.” (Job 36:26)We don’t know whether Elihu understood the full intensity or weight of these words when he spoke them. Yet this truth reaches far beyond his day. From the beginning of creation and through every generation since, this truth resonates: God is great, and we do not know Him. No one has really known How Great God Is till now. No one has ever fully measured His greatness.God is so great...