I think that what we read today is so great that it is difficult and unfair to have to fit it into one devotion. It’s like only writing about one ship in the South Pacific during WWII.  I will cover what we can, but feel free to dig deeper on your own; and if I had to choose a ship from WWII, it would be The O’Bannon.

I think that what we read today is so great that it is difficult and unfair to have to fit it into one devotion. It’s like only writing about one ship in the South Pacific during WWII.  I will cover what we can, but feel free to dig deeper on your own; and if I had to choose a ship from WWII, it would be The O’Bannon.

The first mention of this “giant of the faith” reveals that he was an unknown pagan who was childless, and soon to be forgotten because he had no descendants to keep his name and memory of him living past his last breath. 

You have to admire the vulnerability of this writer. The expressions of helplessness, inadequacy, and insignificance are offered to God, knowing that his substance in its entirety—body, mind and soul—are products of God’s limitless grace, wisdom, and presence.

Sometimes we forget how divisive a figure Jesus was—far more than in our current environment. His ministry was dangerously unpopular among the trio of authorities He lived under during that time; Caesar, Herod, and the Pharisees actively punished anyone willing to support the message that condemned religious corruption while also denying the permanence of an earthly empire.