Philip Bryant
Executive Director, Grace Fellowship Canada
Devotionals
In the midst of grief and pain, where do you find hope?
Jeremiah is grieving. He is emoting deep pain, and it is real. Hence why the book is called Lamentations. Jerusalem has been pillaged. The nobles have been taken. The temple destroyed. The priest and prophets are no more. Starvation is everywhere, and the most...
Justice? Where is justice? How can it come?
Does it seem impossible right now? Do evil people have the power, and are you left to simply survive? God will make all things right. He holds the future. The people in Jeremiah's day had just endured incredible violence and drama, many killed, many taken, and few...
Fear and Pride
They both blind our judgement. We find so much turmoil in the land, with only a few people left in Israel after Babylon comes and wipes most everything out. Ishmael staged a coup and assassinated the Babylonian appointed leader, and now those that are left are...
What do we do when everything seems to go wrong? When life is not as we want it?
We find the prophet Habakkuk in this situation. He was in the part of history where utter destruction was happening to his people and their land. We read in Habakkuk 3:17-18 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the...
How can God be just and yet all this? Why are violence, strife, and conflict abound?
The prophet Habakkuk cries out to God, frustrated by what he sees, and it seems antithetical to who He knows God to be. Habakkuk 1:1-4 How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not...
We can choose to reject God and His call to come to Him. But there is a time when He says enough.
We see this with Israel and specifically Judah. 2 Chronicles 36:15–16 The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 But they mocked God’s messengers,...