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09/06/2026

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09/04/2026

DAY 5 — Help Me See Them
Read: Matthew 9:35–36

All week we've been walking through Jonah, watching God show mercy to people Jonah didn't think deserved it. But before we finish, let's leave Nineveh and move forward several hundred years.

Matthew tells us that Jesus is traveling through towns and villages, teaching, preaching, and healing. Everywhere He goes, people surround Him. And then Matthew gives us this little glimpse into the heart of Jesus: “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.” — Matthew 9:36 NIV

There it is again. Compassion.

Jonah knew it about God. Nineveh experienced it from God. And now we see it in Jesus.

Jesus isn't correcting the personality of the Old Testament God. He's showing us the heart that was already there.

But notice something else in that verse: “When he saw the crowds...”

Jesus saw them. Not just a crowd. Not just sinners. Not just problems that needed fixing. He saw people who were harassed and helpless, wandering around like sheep without a shepherd. And what He saw moved His heart toward them.

Maybe that's where this entire week has been leading us. We've asked, “Who is my Nineveh?” We've remembered the mercy God has shown us. We've watched Jonah care more about a plant that made him comfortable than an entire city filled with people.

Now maybe the question is simply: Do I see people the way Jesus does?

Because it's easy to see labels. Democrat. Republican. Addict. Immigrant. Atheist. Christian. Liberal. Conservative. Gay. Straight. Rich. Poor. Criminal. Annoying neighbor. Difficult coworker. Estranged family member.

Jesus sees people.

That doesn't mean He ignores sin. Jesus never did. It doesn't mean truth stops mattering. It means that when Jesus looks at lost people, truth and compassion aren't enemies. He sees people who need a Shepherd.

So today, when you encounter someone you normally dismiss, disagree with, avoid, or maybe even dislike, try praying one simple prayer before you decide what you think about them: “Jesus, help me see them the way You do.”

Maybe that's how God begins changing our hearts. Not by asking us to pretend everyone is right. Not by asking us to call evil good. But by teaching us to look at people—even difficult people—and remember that they are people God cares about.

The God who looked at Nineveh and asked, “Should I not care about them?” is the God we see in Jesus looking at the crowds with compassion.

Same God. Same goodness. Mercy shows who He is.

PRAY: Jesus, help me see people the way You do. When I'm tempted to see only someone's sin, politics, choices, failures, or the ways they have hurt me, remind me that You see a person. Give me compassion without compromising truth, mercy without ignoring sin, and a genuine desire for people to know the love and salvation I have found in You. Change my eyes, change my heart, and teach me to love people like You do. Amen.

09/03/2026

DAY 4 — The Plant and the People
Read: Jonah 4:5–11

Jonah is sitting outside Nineveh waiting to see what God will do. The city has repented. God has shown mercy. But apparently Jonah hasn't completely given up hope that God might still destroy the place.

While Jonah waits, God provides a leafy plant that grows over him and gives him shade. And Jonah loves this thing. In fact, Jonah 4:6 says that Jonah was “very happy about the plant.”

Think about that. Sailors discover the living God? Jonah doesn't celebrate. An entire city repents? Jonah gets angry. Plant gives Jonah shade? Best day ever.

Then the next morning God provides a worm. The worm attacks the plant, the plant withers, the sun beats down on Jonah, and suddenly he's miserable. Once again, Jonah gets angry. That's when God points out something Jonah hasn't been able to see about himself: “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight.” — Jonah 4:10 NIV

Jonah didn't plant it. He didn't water it. He didn't spend years caring for it. He had it for about a day. So why does Jonah care so much about it?

Because the plant made Jonah comfortable.

And that's the contrast God wants him to see. Jonah cares about the plant because of what the plant does for Jonah. God cares about Nineveh because of who God is.

Then God turns Jonah's attention away from his dead plant and toward a city filled with more than 120,000 people and asks him one final question: “And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh...?” — Jonah 4:11 NIV

And that's where the book ends. No answer from Jonah. No tidy conclusion. Just God's question hanging there.

Maybe that's because God isn't only asking Jonah.

Should I not care about them?

It's worth asking ourselves what gets our attention, our emotion, our time, and even our prayers. We can become deeply concerned about things that affect our comfort while barely noticing people around us who are far from God.

The plant isn't bad. Comfort isn't automatically bad. But something is wrong when I care more about what makes my life comfortable than I care about people God loves.

So maybe today we need to let God turn our eyes away from the plant and back toward the city. Look around you. The difficult coworker. The neighbor you barely know. The person whose life is a mess. The family member you've nearly given up on. The people you pass every day without really seeing.

God sees people. And His question still hangs in the air: “Should I not care about them?”

PRAY: Father, forgive me for the times I've cared more about my comfort than I've cared about people. Open my eyes to the people around me that I've stopped noticing. Give me Your compassion for the lost, the hurting, the difficult, and the overlooked. Teach me to care about people because You care about people. Amen.

09/02/2026

DAY 3 — Who Is My Nineveh?
Read: Jonah 3:5–10 & Jonah 4:1–4

There's something strange about the end of Jonah 3. An entire city repents. The people believe God. The king gets off his throne, puts on sackcloth, and calls everyone to turn from their evil ways and violence. Then we read: “When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.” — Jonah 3:10 NIV

If the book ended there, we'd probably call it a happy ending. But Jonah wasn't happy. He was angry. And that's because Nineveh wasn't just a city to Jonah. These were Assyrians. Enemies. Wicked people. People Jonah believed deserved judgment—and frankly, he had plenty of reasons to believe that.

God never asked Jonah to pretend Nineveh wasn't wicked. God Himself called out their wickedness. Their violence was real. Their sin mattered. They needed to repent. And they did.

That's when Jonah discovered something about his own heart. He wanted God's mercy for himself. He just wasn't sure he wanted it for them. And that's where this story starts getting uncomfortable for us.

Most of us would say we believe God loves everybody. We believe anybody can be forgiven. We believe nobody is beyond the reach of God's grace.

Everybody. Well... almost everybody.

Because eventually somebody puts a name in that blank.
Maybe it's someone who hurt you. Someone who betrayed you. Someone whose choices disgust you. Someone whose beliefs make you angry. Maybe it's an entire group of people you've quietly decided are what's wrong with the world.

Whoever it is, here's the difficult question: Do I actually want them to experience the same mercy of God that I desperately need for myself?

That doesn't mean pretending their sin doesn't matter. It doesn't mean abandoning wisdom, justice, consequences, or necessary boundaries. It simply means refusing to decide that someone is beyond the reach of the mercy that reached us.

Charles Spurgeon once said, “Never use any other weapon of retaliation than the weapon of love!”

So today, don't immediately ask God to change them. Try something harder. Ask Him to change the way you see them.

Put a name in the blank. Who is my Nineveh?

And then pray for that person—not merely that God would straighten them out, but that they would genuinely encounter the grace, mercy, forgiveness, and transforming love of Jesus Christ.

Because the question isn't only whether I want God's mercy. It's whether I want God's mercy for them.

PRAY: Father, You know my heart better than I do. Show me where I've become selective with the mercy I freely receive from You. Bring to mind the people I struggle to see with compassion, and change the way I see them. Help me desire Your redemption even for those I find hardest to love. Jesus, help me see them the way You do. Amen.

09/01/2026

DAY 2 — You Still Smell Like the Fish
Read: Jonah 2:1–10 & Jonah 3:1–3

Before Jonah ever got angry about God showing mercy to Nineveh, something important happened: God showed mercy to Jonah.
Jonah had run from God. He boarded a ship headed in the opposite direction from where God told him to go. His rebellion endangered everyone around him, and eventually Jonah ended up sinking into the sea.

And then came the fish. We usually remember the fish as the consequence of Jonah's disobedience. But think about where Jonah was when the fish arrived. He was drowning.

The fish wasn't simply punishment. The fish was rescue. Jonah ran from God, and God rescued him anyway.

Then, after Jonah was deposited back onto dry land in the least dignified way imaginable, Jonah 3 begins with some beautiful words: “Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time...” — Jonah 3:1 NIV

A second time.

Jonah didn't get a second assignment because he had handled the first one so well. He got another chance because God is merciful.
Which makes what happens later almost unbelievable. Jonah gets angry when God shows mercy to Nineveh.

Brother... you still smell like the fish. You're angry that somebody else received the very thing you couldn't have survived without.

And maybe that's where Jonah starts looking a little more like us. It's easy to remember what someone else has done and forget what God has forgiven in us. It's easy to see somebody else's failures clearly while viewing our own lives through the lens of grace. It's easy to celebrate second chances when we're the ones receiving them.

But every Christian is a second-chance story.
We didn't earn our place with God. We didn't clean ourselves up enough to deserve His love. We were sinners who needed rescue, and God came after us.

So before deciding who deserves God's mercy today, remember where He found you.

Remember your fish. Remember your second chance.
And maybe instead of looking at somebody else and thinking, “They don't deserve mercy,” we can remember:
Neither did I. That's why it's called mercy.

PRAY: Father, don't let me forget how much mercy You have shown me. When I become impatient with someone else's failures, remind me of the patience You have shown toward mine. Give me a heart that celebrates Your mercy wherever I see it, because I know I couldn't live without it myself. Amen.

08/31/2026

DAY 1 — I Knew It
Read: Jonah 4:1–2 & Exodus 34:6–7
Yesterday we met a prophet who was angry because God did exactly what Jonah knew He would do. Nineveh repented. God showed mercy. And Jonah basically said, “I knew it.”

But listen to what Jonah knew: “I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love...” — Jonah 4:2 NIV

Those words weren't something Jonah figured out by watching what happened in Nineveh. Hundreds of years earlier, God had already described Himself to Moses: “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness...” — Exodus 34:6 NIV

Jonah knew God was merciful because God had told His people that He was.

Think about that for a minute. Sometimes we allow our circumstances to tell us what God is like. When life is good, God must be good. When prayers are answered the way we hoped, God must be faithful. When life hurts, God must have forgotten us. When we don't understand what He's doing, maybe God isn't as good as we thought.

But God's character isn't determined by what happened to us this morning.

God has already told us who He is.

Compassionate. Gracious. Slow to anger. Abounding in love.
Jonah believed those things so strongly that he actually ran away because he was afraid God might show that kind of mercy to people Jonah hated.

He was wrong about a lot of things. But he wasn't wrong about God.

So whatever today brings, don't begin with your circumstances and work backward trying to decide what they say about God. Begin with who God has already revealed Himself to be, and look at your circumstances from there.

The God you woke up to this morning is compassionate and gracious. He is slow to anger. He abounds in love.
Same God. Same goodness. Mercy shows who He is.

PRAY: Father, when my circumstances make it difficult to understand what You are doing, help me remember who You have already told me You are. Teach me to trust Your character even when I cannot see Your purposes. Thank You for being compassionate, gracious, patient, and abounding in love. Amen.

08/28/2026

DAY 5 — Tomorrow’s God

Read: 31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:31–34 NIV

All week we've been looking backward at Israel in the wilderness.

They didn't know where tomorrow's food was coming from. They couldn't stockpile enough manna to make themselves feel secure. Every morning required them to trust that the God who provided yesterday would still be God when they woke up tomorrow.

And if that sounds familiar, it should.

You'll remember from our Theology of Generosity series that just a few weeks ago we spent an entire message in Matthew 6 listening to Jesus say:

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” — Matthew 6:34 NIV

Apparently, the lesson God was teaching Israel with manna is a lesson His people still needed thousands of years later.

And if we're being honest... it's a lesson we still need today.

We want tomorrow's manna.

We want to know the money will be there. We want the doctor's report before the appointment. We want to know our children will be okay. We want the relationship fixed. We want the decision made. We want God to show us how this whole thing is going to turn out.

We don't just want today's provision. We want tomorrow's guarantee.

But remember what happened when Israel tried to keep manna overnight? It spoiled.

God wasn't being cruel. He was teaching His people something: dependence.

Every morning they had to walk outside trusting that the God who had been faithful yesterday would provide what they needed today.

Jesus points us toward that same kind of trust.

Look at the birds. Look at the flowers. Your heavenly Father knows what you need. Seek Him today. Obey Him today. Receive His grace today.

And let tomorrow belong to Him.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't plan. Scripture commends wisdom and preparation. It means planning and trusting aren't opposites—but planning and pretending we're in control are.

You'll remember the question we asked during that Matthew 6 message:

Who am I trusting?

Because worry has a way of exposing where we've placed our confidence.

And maybe after this week we can add another question:

What evidence do I already have?

Remember your additional source material.

Remember the Red Seas He's brought you through. Remember the manna He's already provided. Remember the ordinary mornings you stopped noticing. Remember the deep waters where you discovered He was still with you.

Then look at tomorrow and remember: The God who was there will be there too.

You don't need tomorrow's strength today. You don't need tomorrow's answers today. You don't need tomorrow's manna today.

You need enough grace to faithfully walk with God today.

And tomorrow morning?

There will be new mercies. New grace. Whatever God knows you need to follow Him for another day.

That's why Israel's story leaves us with something better than a promise that life will always work out the way we hope.

It leaves us with God Himself.

Israel didn't have tomorrow's manna.

They had something better. They had tomorrow's God.

And so do we.

Think About It

What “tomorrow” have you been trying to carry today?

What evidence from God's past faithfulness can help you trust Him with what you cannot control?

Prayer

Father, I confess that I often want tomorrow's answers before I'm willing to trust You today. Help me remember how faithfully You've carried me, provided for me, and stayed with me. Give me today's grace for today's obedience, and teach me to leave tomorrow where it belongs—in Your hands. I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know You will already be there. Father, tomorrow belongs to You. Amen.

08/27/2026

DAY 4 — Still in the Wilderness

Read: 1But now, this is what the Lord says—
he who created you, Jacob,
he who formed you, Israel:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
2When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze. Isaiah 43:1–2 NIV

Sometimes we tell stories about God's faithfulness from the other side.

We talk about the prayer that was answered. The door that finally opened. The diagnosis that turned around. The relationship that was restored. The season that eventually ended.

And those stories matter. We should tell them.

But what about when you're still in it?

What about when the prayer hasn't been answered? When the circumstances haven't changed? When the water is still deep and you don't know how much farther you have to go?

Isaiah 43 gives us a promise I think we sometimes read too quickly:

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.” — Isaiah 43:2 NIV

Notice what God doesn't say.

You will never face deep water.

His promise is:

“I will be with you.”

That's important because sometimes we confuse God's goodness with God making our circumstances good.

And Scripture never promises us that.

Sometimes God parts the water.

Sometimes He walks with us through it.

Israel knew something about that. God had already split the Red Sea and brought them through on dry ground. That's the kind of provision that's impossible to miss.

But then they entered the wilderness.

And God didn't immediately take the wilderness away.

Instead, every morning He gave them manna.

The wilderness was still there. The uncertainty was still there. They still didn't have tomorrow's supply.

But God was there too.

And maybe that's one of the harder ways to recognize His goodness.

We tend to look for God's faithfulness in the things He removes.

The sickness that disappears. The problem that gets solved. The door that opens. The storm that finally passes.

But what if His faithfulness is also visible in what carries us when the thing doesn't go away?

The strength you shouldn't have had. The friend who showed up. The peace that didn't make sense. The grace that somehow met you that morning. The ability to take one more step when you were certain you couldn't.

Maybe that was manna too.

Maybe God's provision isn't always an escape route.

Sometimes His presence is provision.

Maybe you're in deep water right now. You're asking God to heal something that is still broken. You're asking Him to restore something that still feels lost. You're asking Him to answer a question that still doesn't have an answer.

And I don't want to give you a shallow Christian answer and tell you everything is going to work out exactly the way you want.

I don't know that.

But I can tell you what God has revealed about Himself.

Deep water is not evidence that He has left you. An unanswered prayer is not proof that He doesn't hear you. A difficult season does not get to redefine His character.

Sometimes the testimony is:

“God got me out.”

And sometimes the testimony is:

“I still don't understand how I made it through... except God was there.”

Both testify to a faithful God.

So if you're still in the wilderness today, don't assume that means God isn't providing.

And if the water is still deep, don't assume that means He's standing somewhere safely on the shore.

Listen again to His promise:

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you.”

Not necessarily an explanation. Not necessarily an escape route. Not tomorrow's entire supply.

Maybe just enough grace for today.

The wilderness may still be here. The water may still be deep. But so is God.

Think About It

Am I measuring God's goodness only by whether He changes my circumstances?

Where might God already be sustaining me, strengthening me, or carrying me while I'm still in the deep water?

Prayer

Father, there are things in my life I desperately want You to change. I won't pretend they don't hurt, and I won't pretend I understand why You've allowed them. But help me not confuse deep water with an absent God. Open my eyes to the ways You are sustaining me even here. Whether You part the waters or walk with me through them, give me enough grace for today and help me trust You with tomorrow. Thank You that I never enter the wilderness alone. You are with me. And Your presence is provision too. Amen.

08/26/2026

DAY 3 — When Miracles Become Breakfast

Read: 1Praise the Lord, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2Praise the Lord, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
3who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. Psalm 103:1–5 NIV

There are some things you never imagine becoming ordinary.

The first time you hold your child. The first night in a new home. The first paycheck from the job you prayed for. The first morning after receiving the news you'd been desperately hoping for.

At first, you notice everything. And then life happens. The extraordinary slowly becomes familiar.

That's one of the dangers of experiencing God's faithfulness over and over again: we can become so accustomed to His goodness that we stop recognizing it as goodness.

That's why David says something interesting in Psalm 103: “Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits.” — Psalm 103:2 NIV

Forget not.

Apparently, it's possible to be surrounded by the goodness of God and still forget to see it.

Think about Israel. Imagine that first morning in the wilderness.

They walk outside and discover that somehow, overnight, God has covered the ground with food. Yesterday they were wondering whether they were going to survive. Today they're gathering breakfast off the ground.

That first morning must have been incredible.

But then God did it again. And again. And again.

Tomorrow morning? Manna.
Next Tuesday? Manna.
Next month? Manna.
Next year? Manna.

For forty years, God faithfully provided for His people. And somewhere along the way, the miracle became breakfast.

Not because God's provision became less extraordinary.

Because they became accustomed to receiving it.

I wonder how much of God's goodness in our own lives has become breakfast.

You woke up this morning. Breakfast.
Someone loves you. Breakfast.
There was food in the refrigerator. A friend texted. Your lungs filled with air. You had enough strength to get out of bed. Someone made you laugh. The sun came up again.

Breakfast. Breakfast. Breakfast.

Now, we need to be careful here. Recognizing God's goodness doesn't mean pretending life isn't painful. Some mornings bring terrible news. Some prayers remain unanswered. Some chairs at the table are painfully empty.

Gratitude isn't pretending those things don't hurt.

It's refusing to let what hurts become the only thing we can see.

Psalm 103 doesn't come from someone who believed life was always easy. David knew loss, betrayal, fear, failure, enemies, and grief. And still he tells his soul:

Don't forget.

Remember His forgiveness. Remember His healing and redemption. Remember His compassion. Remember the good things He has given.

Maybe one of the greatest threats to wonder isn't that God stops being good.

Maybe it's that His goodness becomes so familiar that we stop noticing.

We're waiting for the Red Sea to split while there's breakfast sitting on the table. We're waiting for something spectacular while God has been quietly sustaining us through a thousand ordinary mercies.

Maybe today we need to borrow the eyes of a child seeing manna for the first time.

Look again.

Look at the people you've grown accustomed to. The provisions you expect to be there. The ordinary morning you weren't promised. The small kindness. The strength for today. The mercy that showed up again.

Don't rush past it simply because you've seen it before.

Forty years of ordinary mornings were sustained by an extraordinary God.

And the same God is sustaining you today.

Think About It

What has God provided so consistently that you've stopped recognizing it as a gift?

Where might you need to look again and recover some wonder at God's ordinary goodness today?

Prayer

Father, forgive me for how easily I become accustomed to Your goodness. Open my eyes to the gifts I've stopped noticing and the mercies I've started calling ordinary. Help me hold gratitude and grief together without pretending either one isn't real. Give me eyes to see Your quiet faithfulness again. Don't let me become so familiar with Your provision that I lose my wonder. Father, thank You. I see it. Amen.

08/25/2026

DAY 2 — God Heard the Grumbling

Read: 11The Lord said to Moses, 12“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’ ”
13That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. Exodus 16:11–15 NIV

There’s something in this story that I’m not sure we appreciate until we slow down long enough to see it.

Israel is hungry. They’re frustrated. They’re afraid. And instead of remembering everything God has already done for them, they start grumbling.

And this isn’t just a few people saying, “Boy, I could really go for a sandwich.” They start looking backward. Egypt starts sounding better than it actually was. Slavery begins getting edited out of the story. They even accuse Moses and Aaron of bringing them into the wilderness to starve them to death.

And then God says something remarkable: “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites.” — Exodus 16:12 NIV

Uh-oh.

If I were reading this story for the first time, I might expect the next sentence to be: “And the LORD had had enough.”

But that's not what happens.

God tells Moses: “At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread.” — Exodus 16:12 NIV

Think about that.

They grumbled. God fed them.
They questioned His goodness. God showed them His goodness.
They wondered whether He cared about them. God put breakfast on the ground.

That doesn't mean their grumbling was okay. Scripture takes unbelief seriously, and Israel will eventually experience the consequences of continually refusing to trust God.

But on this morning in the wilderness, before Israel could clean up its attitude, improve its faith, or prove that it deserved anything...

God was gracious.

And that matters because sometimes we quietly begin believing that God's goodness toward us depends upon how well we're doing toward Him.

I've been praying enough, so maybe God will help me. I've been behaving pretty well, so maybe God will bless me. I've had a rough week spiritually, so I probably shouldn't expect much from God.

But grace doesn't begin with our worthiness. It flows from God's character.

That's what Israel discovered in the wilderness.

They didn't wake up to manna because they had finally become impressive people or because their grumbling didn't matter.

They woke up to manna because God was still God.

And church, that's still our story.

Romans 5:8 says: But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Not once we got ourselves together. Not once our faith became impressive. Not once we finally deserved Him.

While we were still sinners.

The manna in the wilderness points us toward something we see even more clearly at the cross: God's goodness comes before our deserving.

That's grace.

Maybe you've stumbled lately. Maybe your faith hasn't exactly been impressive. Maybe you've complained more than you've prayed. Maybe you've questioned God. Maybe you've wondered whether He's really as good as you've been told.

Don't hide that from Him. He heard Israel's grumbling too.

And then look at what He showed them.

Not a God who pretended their unbelief didn't matter. Not a God whose character changed because they were struggling.

But a God whose kindness was teaching undeserving people who He was—and inviting them to trust Him.

Romans 2:4 tells us that God's kindness is intended to lead us to repentance. His kindness isn't approval of our rebellion. Sometimes His kindness is the very thing He uses to turn our hearts back toward Him.

Sometimes God's kindness isn't the reward at the end of our faithfulness.

Sometimes His kindness is what teaches us to trust Him in the first place.

Think About It

Have you ever started believing that God's goodness toward you depended on how well you were doing spiritually?

Where might God be showing you grace right now—not because you've earned it, but simply because He is gracious?

Prayer

Father, thank You that Your goodness isn't something I earn. Forgive me for the times I've grumbled, doubted, or forgotten what You've already done. When my faith is weak, help me look at Your character instead of my performance. Thank You for the grace You showed Israel in the wilderness and for the far greater grace You've shown me through Jesus. Teach me to trust You—not because I'm always faithful, but because You always are. Amen.

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