Devotions from February 2022

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 6-9 Meditation Verses: 7:19-22 God is not so jealous of His name that He would protect a building dedicated to Him when the people who dedicated it departed from Him. He is rather so jealous for His name that He would…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 10-13 Meditation Verse: 12:13 Rehoboam did poorly as king because he was young and inexperienced, yet here it says he began to reign when he was forty-one years old! How then could he be a youth and tender of heart? He…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 14-17 Meditation Verse: 16:7 Asa had done so well, seeking the Lord and cleansing the land from of the high places and the idols and Asherah. He depended on the Lord for salvation from the Cushites. He was doing everything right,…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 18-21 Meditation Verses: 20:35-37 Jehoshaphat is like many Christians today, who think that God's love requires or at least allows for partnerships with unbelievers. Yet God rebuked him twice, directly and clearly for partnering with Ahab and his son. And his…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 22-25 Meditation Verse: 25:27 How many generations of Jehoshaphat's family suffered because of his partnership with the house of Ahab? Is this three generations now or four? It seemed like such a good thing to Jehoshaphat to ally himself with the…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 26-29 Meditation Verses: 29:5-8 Hezekiah understood that the trouble that had come upon the nation was because his father and that generation had turned against the Lord. When things went from bad to worse, his father turned to the gods that…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 30-33 Meditation Verse: 32:1 Hezekiah brought Judah back to the Lord in great ways. He was faithful to the Lord and trusted in Him and made all kinds of great reforms to turn the people back to the Lord. But when…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 34 - Ezra 1 Meditation Verses: 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 This is what it will be like in the last days, before the Lord brings His final judgment on the earth. There will be prophets calling for repentance, but the people will…

Passage Read: Ezra 2-5 Meditation Verses: 4:1-3 Ezra calls these people enemies of Israel, but is that because of their reaction to the Jews' refusal to let them help or because they actually did come deceptively? Did they just want to seek the Lord or…

Passage Read: Ezra 6-9 Meditation Verses: 9:13-14 There is such a danger to misunderstand the grace and kindness of God. When He punishes His people, He holds back part of His wrath so as not to completely destroy us. But we can misunderstand that and…

Passage Read: Ezra 10 - Nehemiah 3 Meditation Verses: Ezra 10:10-12 Those commands to not intermarry with foreigners actually reveals a couple things about life long ago: It shows that many father's didn't actually oversee their own homes and exercise real dominion there. They left…

Passage Read: Nehemiah 4-7 Meditation Verses: 6:10-11 Nehemiah was leading this great work, for the good of the people and of the city. If he showed fear, fear would overwhelm the people and they would be discouraged. If he sought to save his own life…

Passage Read: Nehemiah 8-11 Meditation Verse: 9:26 The prophets testified against the people in order to turn them back to the Lord. But of course the people hated that, and worked to silence the prophets, even killing them. No one wants to be told what…