The Shepherd Who Seeks the Wanderer (Psalm 119:169-176)

Psalm 119:169–176 closes with a tender prayer from a wandering heart. This article reflects on the Shepherd who seeks the lost, the mercy that answers our cry, and the hope that God's Word offers to every soul in need.

When Midnight Finds You Awake (Psalm 119:57-64)

It was just after midnight. The world outside the window was still. The kind of stillness that makes you hear your own heart. The wind had gone to sleep, the moon stood guard, and inside, in the quiet, a soul sat wide awake. Not because of noise. Not because of worry. But because of God. …

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Hope in the Ashes (Ezra 10)

The people stood in the rain, shivering—not just from the cold, but from the weight of what they had done. They had wandered from God. Again. They had intermarried with foreign nations, blending their worship with the idols of the land. They had compromised. And now, standing before Ezra, they felt the full weight of …

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When God Confirms What You Knew, but Everyone Else Forgot (Ezra 6)

"And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia." —Ezra 6:14 They …

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