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One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on the Daily Radio Bible, a daily Bible‑in‑a‑year podcast with 20‑minute Scripture readings, Christ‑centered devotion, and guided prayer.This daily Bible reading and devotional invites you to live as a citizen of Jesus’ kingdom, reconciled, renewed, and deeply loved.
TODAY'S EPISODE:
Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible! On this first day of September, Hunter guides us through Ezekiel 15–16, Psalm 70, and Revelation 6.
Ezekiel gives us a painful and deeply personal picture of God’s relationship with his people. The prophet reaches for the language of family, marriage, abandonment, betrayal, and heartbreak to describe Israel’s wandering. These are difficult images, but they reveal that God is not cold or detached. He is the God whose heart is moved by the suffering, rebellion, and loss of his children.
Yet betrayal is not the end of the story. God promises to remember his covenant and restore the relationship that has been shattered.
Psalm 70 gives voice to the urgent cry of those who need rescue: “O God, come quickly to help me.” Revelation 6 then confronts us with the violence, fear, injustice, and devastation present within the world.
Through all these passages, we are invited to see the persistent love of God. In Jesus, God enters our brokenness and bears its full weight in order to bring us home. The final word is not abandonment, revenge, or destruction. The final word is restoration.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
The weight of betrayal and the depths of God’s love.
Ezekiel reaches for image after image to describe the heartbreak of God.
One metaphor is not enough.
He speaks of a parent who finds an abandoned child, cares for her, raises her, and gives her life. He speaks of a spouse whose love is rejected and betrayed. The language is harsh and unsettling because betrayal is harsh and unsettling.
But Ezekiel does not want us to imagine a distant God who is unmoved by what happens in the world.
He wants us to see the broken heart of God.
God is not indifferent to our wandering.
He is not cold in the face of human suffering.
He is not untouched by violence, exploitation, selfishness, or the ways we wound one another.
God loves.
And because God loves, God grieves.
The story Ezekiel tells is the story of a people who have received everything and then turned away from the One who gave it. They have forgotten their beginning. They have forgotten their rescue. They have forgotten the love that found them when they had nothing.
Yet even here, God remembers.
God remembers the covenant.
God remains determined to restore what has been broken.
That is the astonishing turn in the story.
The end is not bitterness.
The end is not endless vengeance.
The end is restoration.
It is a relationship made new.
It is a covenant remembered.
It is the wayward brought home.
The prophet strains to describe this love, but ultimately we must look to Jesus.
Jesus is God’s love in flesh and blood.
He is the clearest picture of the heart of God.
In Jesus, God enters the full depth of our betrayal, rejection, violence, and shame. He does not remain at a safe distance. He comes near. He bears our wounds. He absorbs our hostility. He enters our death.
And from within it all, he brings resurrection.
This is the love that restores us.
It is not sentimental love.
It is not shallow approval.
It is the fierce, suffering, forgiving love of God that refuses to abandon his creation.
Revelation 6 gives us images of a world unraveling under the weight of conquest, violence, scarcity, death, and fear. It can feel frightening because it reflects so much of what we see around us.
But the Lamb is still at the center of the story.
The One who opened the seals is the One who was slain.
The Judge of the world is the Lamb who gave himself for the world.
That changes how we understand everything.
God’s purpose is not to discard his creation but to heal it.
God’s intention is not to surrender the world to death but to make all things new.
So when Psalm 70 cries, “O God, come quickly to help me,” we can pray it with confidence.
God has come.
God is coming.
God is present even now, working within the ruins to restore what has been lost.
May we awaken today to the depth of this love.
May we see that we are not abandoned.
May we trust that our failures do not have the final word.
The final word belongs to the God who remembers, restores, and makes all things new.
That’s the prayer I have for my own soul. That’s the prayer I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters, and my son. And that’s the prayer I have for you.
May it be so.
TODAY'S PRAYERS:
Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.
Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
And now Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, Joy. Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life. Amen
And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ. Amen.
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