Four passages and a short devotional a day to take you through the whole Bible in one year — right alongside your Spirit Church family.
Real questions from Spirit readers on this passage, answered by our pastors.
The Old Testament's last book opens with a declaration and a comeback. I have loved you, says the LORD. And Israel, tired and feeling shortchanged by life, answers: how? Prove it.
It is the rawest exchange in the prophets, and it may be the most honest prayer of a hard year. God does not strike them for asking. He answers. Bring the question with you if you have it.
Malachi's Israel asked the question out loud: how have You loved us? They were staring at a modest temple, a struggling economy, and centuries of waiting. Revelation 21 is the answer held in trust: a God who moves in permanently, wipes tears away with His own hand, and remakes everything death ever touched.
The delight was never fiction. The LORD takes delight in His people, the psalm insists, even the ones asking hard questions through tears. If this year has you tallying evidence against God's love, let the last pages of both testaments testify: the story He is writing for you ends with open gates and no more mourning.