by Susan Barnes | 21 Aug 2023 | Devotions OT
“He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye, like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.” Deuteronomy 32:10-11 After one of our many moves, I was looking...
by Susan Barnes | 9 Feb 2021 | Devotions OT
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. If my people would only listen to me … Psalm 81:10-13When my parents were both in a...
by Susan Barnes | 26 Jan 2021 | Devotions OT
“And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table; he was lame in both feet.” 2 Samuel 9:13 Previously Mephibosheth lived at Lo Debar, and even the name of the place sounds depressing. It means “no pasture.” It was an empty and barren...
by Susan Barnes | 12 May 2020 | Devotions OT
“O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble. They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.”...
by Susan Barnes | 14 Dec 2018 | Devotions OT
To the arrogant I say, “Boast no more,” and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horns. Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak so defiantly.” Psalm 75:4-5 God hates arrogance and defiant speech. Arrogance comes from pride and is a refusal to acknowledge...
by Susan Barnes | 7 Dec 2018 | Devotions OT
When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny. Psalm 73:16-17 So often we don’t understand God’s ways and it troubles us deeply. We see good people suffering and wicked people...
by Susan Barnes | 30 Nov 2018 | Devotions OT
May God bless us still, so that all the ends of the earth will fear him. Psalm 67:7 The psalmist asks for blessings so that people will come to know God. God’s blessings leads to repentance. “Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and...
by Susan Barnes | 23 Nov 2018 | Devotions OT
But God will shoot them with his arrows; they will suddenly be struck down. Psalm 64:7 It’s interesting to consider some of the “suddenlies” in the Bible: “Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the...
