by Susan Barnes | 28 Sep 2026 | Podcast
But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me. I will sing to the Lord because he is good to me. Psalm 13:5-6 David begins this psalm by saying, “O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever?”...
by Susan Barnes | 21 Sep 2026 | Podcast
“The Lord’s promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over.” Psalm 12:6 Purified silver is untainted. Its purity can be depended upon. Likewise, I can depend on God’s promises. Sometimes, though, we misunderstand his promises....
by Susan Barnes | 4 Sep 2026 | Podcast
“For the righteous Lord loves justice. The virtuous will see his face.” Psalm 11:7 Constable, in his commentary on Psalms, tells us that “seeing God” is a synonym for having an intimate relationship with God. In the natural world, we make friends with like-minded...
by Susan Barnes | 1 Sep 2026 | Featured
The second book in my ’10’ Collection releases today: 10 Things I Hate About God And How He Won Me Anyway. What if the honesty you’re afraid to express is exactly what God wants from you? Moses asked God to kill him. Jonah got angry when God showed mercy....
by Susan Barnes | 21 Aug 2026 | Podcast
“The Lord is a shelter for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Those who know your name trust in you, for you, O Lord, do not abandon those who search for you.” Psalm 9:9-10 Our God is both a shelter and a refuge. In 1719, Isaac Watts wrote the hymn, O God,...
by Susan Barnes | 3 Aug 2026 | How God Sees Us
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!” Isaiah 49:15 And yet sometimes we do feel forgotten. Even David, a man after God’s own heart, wrote, “O Lord, how long will...
by Susan Barnes | 27 Jul 2026 | Short Devotion>People
“I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.” Jonah 4:2 Jonah knows God’s character, but objects to God acting this way towards the Ninevites. Yet Jonah would also know his own...
by Susan Barnes | 29 Aug 2025 | Articles
People wouldn’t have invented the God we find in the Bible. He isn’t a comfortable God. He claims to be all-powerful and loving, yet he won’t promise us a life without difficulties. He knows us far too well and loves us far too deeply. He doesn’t want us to waste our...
