Devotionals

Where you can find unending joy

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there

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The shelter from life’s storms

For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. — Habakkuk 2:3 When

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The wisdom of waiting

I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me… — Habakkuk 2:1 There is a key password for connecting

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Why must God reject evil?

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil             and cannot look at wrong… Habakkuk 1:13 Not long ago, I was at a basketball game and I sat down on some wooden bleachers.

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The shelter from life’s storms

When I was a pastor living in Hobart, Oklahoma, the parsonage had a little hiding place… a storm cellar in the backyard. And every now and then the storm siren would go off warning of the possibility of a tornado in the area. When that happened, people would run to their storm cellars to ride out the storm in a secure place.

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