Tucked inside a war poem about Nineveh's fall comes this quiet line: "For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as…Tucked inside a war poem about Nineveh's fall comes this quiet line: "For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel." God's eye was never only on the empire. He was counting the stripped vine branches of a small, plundered people. Whatever has been emptied out of you, He saw it. And He restores.
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Why did the sea only split once Moses stretched out his hand?
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Questions God asks
Sun Oct 4
Cain and the question about his brother
Genesis 4→
Mon Oct 5
Hagar meets the God who sees her
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What is that in your hand, Moses?
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1 Kings 19→
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God questions Job out of the storm
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Jonah, angry about a withered little plant
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Peter, do you love me? Asked three times
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