Read Genesis 39, Job 5, and Psalm 37. This devotional is about Genesis 39. A guy like Joseph could easily have justified an immoral relationship with Potiphar’s wife. He had been sold and enslaved unjustly. He was deprived of the blessings that he should have had as Jacob’s favored son, not to mention the opportunity […]
Genesis 38, Job 4, Psalm 36
Read Genesis 38, Job 4, Psalm 36. This devotional is about Psalm 36. After we sin, and the pleasure of it is gone, and the price tag comes due, it feels pretty stupid. Before we sin, however, sin seems like a great idea. We delude ourselves into thinking that we won’t get caught or we […]
Genesis 37, Job 3, Psalm 35
Read Genesis 37, Job 3, and Psalm 35. This devotional is about Job 3. Job received the blows of affliction well in chapters 1-2. He recognized that he was not entitled to the life he enjoyed and that God, as Sovereign, had every right to take away what he gave. That doesn’t mean, however, that […]
Genesis 35-36, Job 2, Psalm 34
Read Genesis 35-36, Job 2, and Psalm 34. This devotional is about Job 2. In Job 1 we were introduced to this famous man of the Old Testament. Although he is not tied through any genealogy to Israel, he was someone who worshipped the true God. As 1:1-2 told us, “he feared God and shunned […]
Genesis 34, Job 1, Psalm 33
Read Genesis 34, Job 1, and Psalm 33. This devotional is about Genesis 34. Larry Nassar went to prison in 2017 for molesting over 150 girls and young women while he was supposed to be treating them in his role as a sports medicine doctor. He is just one of many men in the news who […]
Genesis 33, Esther 9-10, Psalm 32
Read Genesis 33, Esther 9-10, and Psalm 32. This devotional is about Esther 9-10. There are good, godly men who don’t believe that God cares about Israel as a nation any longer. They believe that God’s promises to Israel have been fulfilled in Christ and in the church. The Jews that exist today, then, are just […]
Genesis 32, Esther 8, Psalm 31
Read Genesis 32, Esther 8, Psalm 31. This devotional is about Psalm 31. During the Gulf War (the one in the early 1990s), U.S. Army General Norman Schwarzkopf held a famous press conference that made him into a celebrity. In that press conference, he showed a video of a car in Iraq crossing a bridge. […]
Genesis 31, Esther 7, Psalm 30
Read Genesis 31, Esther 7, and Psalm 30. This devotional is about Genesis 31. People steal from their employers in different ways–taking cash, removing small items, doing personal tasks with company time or resources, etc. People do this kind of theft for different reasons but one of them is that they don’t feel they are […]
Genesis 30, Esther 6, and Psalm 29
Read Genesis 30, Esther 6, and Psalm 29. This devotional is about Esther 6. Haman was a man on the rise in Xerxes’s kingdom of Persia. Back in chapter 3 we read that Xerxes honored Haman “elevating him and giving a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles” (3:1). Haman was […]
Genesis 29, Esther 5, Psalm 28
Read Genesis 29, Esther 5, and Psalm 28. This devotional is about Genesis 29. Laban may have thought himself to be very clever. He managed to get 14 years of work and marry off both of his daughters at the same time. Everyone else, however, suffered in this situation, but no one suffered more than […]