Latest Thoughts of the Day

Zephanaih 2:11

4/30/2025

The Lord will be awesome to them when He destroys all the gods of the land. The nations on every shore will worship Him, every one in its own land.

This already has begun to happen in all the nations of the earth. Men, women, boys and girls are turning from whatever they worshipped before to worship the God of Israel there in the land where they were born. Some in every land can say, “Jesus has destroyed all my idols, and won me to Himself.” “Jesus is awesome to me.” In their own land and among their own people, they have been brought to honor, worship and adore Jehovah God, in the living person of His Son. God is spreading His knowledge to every corner of the earth, among every people group. Though sparsely in some localities, yet everywhere on earth, people are gathering to worship Jesus.

Habakkuk 2:15

4/29/2025

Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from a wineskin so that he can gaze on their naked bodies.

God knows our petty dirty thoughts and desires, and He sees our disrespect for others and our spending our resources, not for the good of others, but in order to gain at their expense. We are embarrassed by this display of sin because we know the embarrassing sins of which we are secretly guilty. God begins His judgment with the people of God, and He reveals to Habakkuk His determination to judge His own nation, that He might bring them to repentance. They misused their wine, and God will destroy their vines. They dishonored Him with their wealth, and God will rob them of their land. In all of this, He is preparing His world to send us His Son. On His mind is Jesus.

Nahum 2:9

4/28/2025

Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!

The mighty empire that is glutted on the gold of the nations it has slaughtered will itself fall, and its conquerors will challenge one another to rake in its gold. They who showed no mercy will be shown no mercy. Their pride of possession will be humbled to the dust. God’s goal in the book of Nahum is not to call them to repentance, but rather to declare their complete overthrow. Within five years the Assyrian army encamped against Jerusalem will experience the loss of 185,000 men slain by the Angel of the Lord in a single night. This will mark the beginning of the terrible downfall pictured in this verse. He who raises up one and puts down another is the God who for us and our salvation has sent Jesus.

Micah 6:12

4/27/2025

Her rich men are violent; her people are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.

Dishonest rich men get richer by deceit because it is important to them to keep up appearances. When there is no one to stop them, they turn to violence as a means of increasing their wealth. The people as a whole are on the same track, starting out by deceitfulness. But they are on the same road, and the end of that road will bring them to the judgment of God for their wickedness. Micah will go on to challenge us with a summary of God’s desire. “Do good, love kindness and walk humbly before God.” He will finish the book with a wonderful picture of our sin cast into the depth of the sea. Lord, help us to long for this and to desire it for ourselves as we draw near to Jesus!

Zecharia 11:13

4/26/2025

And the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter"--the handsome price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, tp the potter.

ZECHARIAH 11:13
And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.
Zechariah has been called “The book of Revelation” of the Old Testament for its many intriguing pictures and the fact that is speaks directly of Christ more than any book except Isaiah. Today’s quote is impossible to interpret wit certainty. The thirty pieces of silver thrown into the temple make us think of Judas Iscariot after the betrayal of Christ. The involvement of the potter makes us think of the field that was ultimately purchased with the blood-money. But we are unable to fit together these elements until the fulfillment God will bring to pass. We must ponder the details, but we are very glad to think of Jesus.

Jonah 3:9

4/26/2025

Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from His fierce anger so that we will not perish.

Jonah’s message to Nineveh had been only judgment, with no mention of mercy at all. Nevertheless, the leadership of the city must have heard that mercy was a possibility with the God of Israel, so they lifted what hope they could, and they garnered a terrific response of repentance. They did what they could outwardly and trusted God to look upon their hearts. Ultimately, to Jonah’s chagrin, God did recognize the repentance for what it was and remembered mercy, and for the time spared that great city. The Ninevite leaders were right about God’s propensity to mercy, even though the prophet who had spoken to them was content to hide it. It was still 840 years before Calvary, but God was looking ahead with steadfast purpose to Jesus.

Obadiah 16

4/25/2025

Just as you drank on my holy hill, so all the nations will drink continually, they will dink and drink and be as if they had never been.

God is speaking final judgment upon Edom. One of their offenses was that they took refuge in drunkenness, determining not to take seriously the things of God. They were, as it were, on His holy hill, but they sought mental and spiritual oblivion. Oblivion they will be given, along will all the nations that forget God. Men everywhere are drunk today with power, with influence, with lust, with riches, with experiences they have pursued in a way that blotted out God. Even while enjoying His good things, they have used them to push away the thought of God. But it is appointed to man once to die and after this, the judgment. Help us, Lord, to find refuge in Jesus.

Amos 7:13

4/24/2025

"Don't prophesy anymore at Bethel, for this the king's sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom."

The priest that the king of Israel has appointed for himself is telling Amos, the prophet of God where he is permitted to prophesy. The assumption of the priest is that Amos is working as a prophet for the same reason he is serving as a priest—to earn his bread. The basis of his command is the good pleasure of the king he serves. God is not in any of his thoughts, so he does not really understand anything that Amos is saying to the people of Israel. People’s attitude toward the clergy is often like this today. It is a business and it is allowed to operate only where they permit it to do so. Help us, Lord, to live by a spiritual authority given to us by Jesus.

Joel 2:26

4/23/2025

You will have plenty to eat until you are full, and you will praise the name of the Lord yout God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed.

The strong dealings of God with Israel has put them through terrible deprivations, but now God speaks of His purposes to bless. In verse 23 He talks of giving them a “teacher for righteousness”. Following Him, they will find blessings to abound. In a few verses He will speak of Pentecost, 720 years before it will come to pass. God is speaking of the blessing He longs to bring upon His people. He connects that blessing with a Special Person. He mixes the dynamics that exist today between God and His people. The heart of God longs to bring His people to the place of blessing and abundance in relation to His Son, Jesus.