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Christian Devotional – May 8, 2025
Who is God? Day 8 God is comforter. Read Nahum 3:7-10. Outside of God, we cannot experience true comfort for the painful experiences of life. The people of Nineveh were experiencing the judgment of God. They were going to go through difficult, hard, challenging, and overwhelming things. All of these judgments were being brought about by God but the people were not repentant for their actions. So they were not being comforted by God. God in his mercy would have provided comfort if they had repented, but without it, they cannot truly understand what comfort is. Are we coming to God for comfort? During the hard things and challenges that…
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Christian Devotional – May 7, 2025
Who is God? Day 7 God is just. Read Nahum chapter 3, focusing on verses 1-7. We have learned many things about God as we’ve read through these verses. One truth that is abundantly clear is that God is just. In chapter 3, we see the coming punishment of Nineveh described. God’s destruction is going to be complete and absolute. However, it’s with reason that he is judging the people of Nineveh. God is just in what he does, and he maintains justice. If people have done wrong, the result of sin is death. God must maintain that order. Now, God is holy and God is just. We see this…
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Christian Devotional – May 6, 2025
Who is God? Day 6 God is our strength and provider. Read Nahum chapter 2, focusing on verses 11-13. The lion thought it was the strongest beast out there, and it’s a great analogy for what Assyria was thinking. They thought they were the strongest nation out there. However, God is showing them differently. When we take a look at who is God, we have to admit that he is the one who is our provider. He is the one who is our strength. The people of Nineveh thought that they were providing for themselves through their own strength. They thought they were mastering the other people around them through…
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Christian Devotional – May 5, 2025
Who is God? Day 5 God is bigger. Read Nahum chapter 2, focusing on verses 7-10. Assyria was one of the largest and most powerful nations at this time. They were known for being brutal and relentlessly conquering all of the people around them. When God starts telling them that judgment is coming, it is easy to think that won’t matter much. However, it’s important to realize that God is bigger. There is nothing that is happening in this world that is outside of God. He is more powerful and more knowledgeable and just “more” in every way. The people of Nineveh were not going to be able to stand…
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Christian Devotional – May 4, 2025
Who is God? Day 4 God Is the Ultimate RestorerRead Nahum chapter 2, focusing on verses 1–6. God is able to restore anything. He can take and remake absolutely anything in the world. The reason He is able to do this is because He was the Creator of it all in the first place. Understanding God as Creator is the first essential step to understanding who He is. Only when we recognize this truth can we truly grasp how He can also be the Re-Creator. As the one who created everything, He has the authority and power to recreate and restore. In Nahum, God was promising to do exactly that…
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Christian Devotional – May 3, 2025
Who is God? Day 3 Conversation. Read Nahum chapter 1, focusing on verses 12-15. In these verses, God begins the conversation. He starts off talking to Judah for verses 12 and 13. Then he speaks directly to Nineveh in verse 14. Finally, he goes back to speaking to Judah in verse 15. God’s conversation is all about what is going to happen. He is not hiding his upcoming actions from either group. God desires people to come to repentance. In him, we see this by how often he gives warnings and how regularly he tries to encourage people to repent. When we see his conversation with Nineveh, he is letting…
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Christian Devotional – May 2, 2025
Who is God? Day 2 God is good. Read Nahum chapter 1, focusing on verses 4-11. As you read through these verses, we see a lot about God. He is bringing judgment and wrath. The mountains and hills shake before him. His anger pours out like fire. And then we read verse 7. Verse 7 seems to stick out oddly in the middle of those verses. This verse tells us that God is good and will rescue those who come to him. In the midst of all these verses about judgment and destruction, it seems a bit out of place. However, this tells us a lot about who God is.…
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Christian Devotional – May 1, 2025
Who is God? Day 1 Who is God and what is He like? Read Nahum chapter 1, focusing on verses 1-3. Some of the questions that I hear from people is “Who is God?” “What is God like?” “What is his character?” “What is the nature of God?” These are deep questions and it can be challenging to understand the answers. God is bigger than we can comprehend, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t give us clues to help us understand who he is. He wants a relationship with us. The book of Nahum gives us insight into the character of God. As you read chapter one, we need…
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Christian Devotional – April 30, 2025
Steadfast, Day 10 Final prayer. Read Jude chapter 1 and focus on verses 24 and 25. It’s a final prayer. Jude has spent much time giving advice and trying to help the fellow believers that he’s writing to. He ends with a prayer for them. These two verses are such a beautiful prayer that can be prayed for anyone that we know and love. We are to seek to be steadfast in everything that we do and live out the principles and the truths that James has given us in this book. This is the prayer that we can pray for ourselves as we conclude our study of this incredible…
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Christian Devotional – April 29, 2025
Steadfast, Day 9 Be merciful. Read Jude chapter 1, focusing on verses 22-23. Every single day we are surrounded by people who do not believe in Jesus Christ. Everywhere we go, we see people going about life without the hope that Jesus provides. Sometimes those people don’t act very nice. Why should we expect any different? People who are lost and without Christ will act like people who are lost and without Christ. We are to have mercy on them, recognizing that they don’t know any better. Until they have Christ, they have no reason to be any better or do any better. They have no understanding of how to…