by Susan Barnes | 3 Oct 2025 | How God Sees Us
“So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.” Hebrews 4:16 In the wilderness, the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron saying to them, “If only we had died by...
by Susan Barnes | 6 Apr 2021 | Quoting Other Writers
“Ordinances were intended to have a deeper message. They are symbolic. No ritual had meaning in itself, it had meaning in what it stood for. The Tabernacle worship with all these strange provisions—the bread, the incense, the offerings, the ornate buildings—all was a...
by Susan Barnes | 12 Jan 2021 | Quoting Other Writers
“It is at wit’s end, driven by the Spirit into the place where the pressure is so great that we have no other recourse but to cry out to God for help, that at last we begin to learn. It breaks upon our dull, slow minds that this help is not something intended for...
by Susan Barnes | 9 Aug 2020 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “Now may the God of peace … equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever.” Hebrews...
by Susan Barnes | 2 Aug 2020 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with...
by Susan Barnes | 26 Jul 2020 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in...
by Susan Barnes | 19 Jul 2020 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are...
by Susan Barnes | 12 Jul 2020 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the...
