Joe Barnett

I trust in your unfailing love.                  —Psalm 13:5 Joseph, Job, and Jesus defined trust by declaring it, not when things were wonderfully good, but when things were terribly bad. Joseph: “You intended to harm me but God intended it for good” (Gen. 50:20). Job: “Though he slay […]

What is man that you are mindful of him?                                        —Psalm 8:4 Can you get the President’s attention? Not likely. Can you get God’s attention? You already have. Twinkling stars on a backdrop of black sky filled

In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice.                                          —Psalm 5:3 Paul got into a terrible mess in Ephesus … We were really crushed and overwhelmed, and feared we would never live through it. We

I will lie down and sleep in peace.                          —Psalm 4:8 Fear of burglars kept her from ever getting a good night’s sleep. One night she heard a noise, shook her husband awake, and sent him to investigate. He had been through the drill

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.                                                      

I know that you can do all things.                           —Job 42:2 There are three doxologies in your New Testament that begin with the words “him who is able” … “Now to him who is able to strengthen you” (Romans 16:25). “Now to him

I cry out to you, O God, but you do not answer.          —Job 30:20 Does the interval between your prayer and God’s answer sometimes seem long? Why doesn’t he answer? Why doesn’t he act? He does—when the time is right. Until then you have to wait. How often we waste time

Though he slay me, yet will I trust him.                                —Job 13:15 Trust isn’t tested in the church pew, it’s tested in battle. It’s tested when the night is dark, and cold, and lonely. It’s tested when loss is devastating and

If I perish, I perish.   —Esther 4:16 In a Commencement address at Stanford University, Steve Jobs said, “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.” He was right. We want to go to heaven, but we delay the trip in every way

You made the heavens … and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them.                                                          —Nehemiah