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 December  3: Facing the Storms on the Horizon Jeremiah 4:19–5:31 ; Colossians 2:6–23 ; Proverbs 11:13–31 Having knowledge or insight into a situation and feeling helpless to act upon that information is one of the most frightening feelings we can experience. It makes us anxious, even pained. Jeremiah 4 describes an experience like this: “My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear in my inner self the sound of a horn, the alarm of war. Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, for all of the lands are devastated.… How long must I see the banner, and hear the sound of a horn? ‘For my people are foolish, they have not known me. They are foolish children, and they do not have insight. They are skillful at doing evil, and they do not know how to do good’ ” (Jer 4:19–22). How should we react in moments like these? How should we operate? There are no simple answers to these questions. But what is certain is that we must depend on God and His provisio...

October 18: A New Way of Being Ezekiel 36:1–37:28; Revelation 18:1–24 ; Job 38:1–11 God calls us to live lives distinguished by His light, clearly separate from our old way of being. He wants to make us a new creation by separating the light from the darkness within our hearts. In Revelation, John describes God calling His people out of Babylon: “And I heard another voice from heaven saying, ‘Come out from her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins, and so that you will not receive her plagues, because her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes’ ” (Rev 18:4–5). Sometimes we can be separated from our former ways of living in the literal sense, but the light has not yet pierced our hearts. We still live in “Babylon” because it exists right where we are. While we have inflated our position, we’ve failed to let God’s light pierce our lives, and we’ve been unable to live lives that respond to His work. Becoming separate involves putting off t...