Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Jul 24, 2024, 2:01 AM
Passage Read: Malachi 1-4
Meditation Verses: 1:7-10
Thought
The governor gets more honor than the Lord. The governor gets nice, healthy animals for his food, but God gets the sickly, the castoffs, the unsellable. Because God can't say anything; He won't do anything. He can't, because He's just a figurehead. But the governor is a real person who can bring trouble on you, even send officers against you! So him you must satisfy, even please, so that he will grant your requests or at least leave you alone to do your own thing.
Jul 3, 2023, 6:44 AM
Passage Read: Malachi 1-4
Meditation Verse: 2:17
Thought
There is so much in this book about dishonoring the Lord. People and priest treat Him with contempt in so many ways. Behind it all is a lack of fear of Him. In this verse, they say that God doesn't care about the wicked and accuse Him of accepting them as good, or they ask where is the God of Justice? He doesn't punish the wicked right away; they endure and prosper, and so everyone figures it's safe to disregard God's Word.