Max Lucado Devotional 29th May 2025, Thursday Message
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TOPIC: A Redemptive Pattern
It’s the repeated pattern in Scripture: Evil. God. Good.
Evil came to Job. Tempted him, tested him. Job struggled, but God countered. He spoke truth, declared sovereignty. Job, in the end, chose God. Satan’s prime target became came God’s star witness, and good resulted. Evil came to David; he committed adultery. Evil came to Daniel; he was dragged to a foreign land. To Nehemiah; the walls of Jerusalem were destroyed. But God countered. Because he did, David wrote songs of grace, Daniel ruled in a foreign land, and Nehemiah rebuilt Jerusalem with Babylonian money. Good happened.
And Jesus. The Bethlehem innkeeper told Jesus’ parents to try their luck in the barn. That was bad. God entered the world in the humblest place on earth. That was good. With Jesus bad became good like night becomes day—regularly, reliably, refreshingly. And redemptively.
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Max Lucado is a pastor, speaker, and best-selling author who, in his own words, “writes books for people who don’t read books.” He serves the people of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, and his message is for the hurting, the guilty, the lonely, and the discouraged: God loves you; let him.