Waiting. Does this word give you a bad feeling in your gut? Have you ever gone through a season of waiting on the Lord? Perhaps you were waiting on healing. Or maybe your wait was for some worldly circumstance that was causing you suffering (joblessness is a big one, and there are others). Was your wait for the salvation of a family member (child, parent, and so on)? There are yet other waits, too, right? Are you waiting now?

Today Jeremiah brings us a devotion from Luke 1:39-45

What a wonderful opportunity we have during this season of quarantine to be around our families. By now, we all know that this extended period of close proximity brings its blessings, but it also reveals its dark sides. This closeness reveals to us the darkness of our own hearts.

Jeremiah takes us through a devotion from John 1:14

I have been known to say this once, twice, and even a million times: God’s commands are a revelation of his character first before they are rules for us to follow. This gets to the very nuts and bolts of the Gospel of salvation—the how? of it all.