Today’s Walk in the Word

Do not be anxious about anything.                   —Philippians 4:6 The Living Bible paraphrases 1 Peter 5:7 this way: “Let him have all your worries and cares, for he is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you.” God is concerned about your concerns. He wants […]

If you want to, you can make me clean.                          —Matthew 8:2 CDC didn’t initiate the 6-foot distancing rule. Long before COVID-19, there was leprosy—and the Rabbinic rule was that no one could come nearer to a leper than four cubits—six feet. One day […]

When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites.       —Matthew 6:5 “I desire then that in every place men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling” (1 Tm 2:8). Here Paul lays down two ingredients of acceptable prayer: First, it must come from a pure heart—“lifting holy hands.” So […]

I tell you to pray for all people.                —1 Timothy 2:1 Some politicians are downright unlikable. Someone said that politics seems to draw people with the dual traits of a gigantic ego and an inferiority complex. When Paul told us in 1 Timothy 2 to pray for all […]

He himself bore our sins . . . that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.                         —1 Peter 2:24 Resolutions move in one of two directions: starting what you ought to start—or quitting what you ought to quit. Carl started smoking […]

Christ died for sins once for all.                   —1 Peter 3:18 The call from his son was urgent. He was behind on his mortgage and had received notice of foreclosure unless the bank received full remittance by ten o’clock the following morning. So, dad overnighted a check […]

I am the Lord, and there is no other.                    —Isaiah 45:5 I don’t know why a tornado demolishes one house and skips over the one next to it. I don’t know why cancer ravages the body of a devoted wife and mother and leaves a drunken […]

O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you.                       —2 Samuel 7:22 Musing on the sovereignty of God, Charles Swindoll noted a smaller word nested inside the big word sovereignty: reign—sove-reign-ty. Sovereignty means our all-knowing, all-powerful God reigns in ways beyond our understanding, causing […]

By the grace of God I am what I am.              —1 Corinthians 15:10 Matthew Henry wrote: “Wherever the Providence of God casts us, we should desire and endeavor to be useful; and, when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we […]

[God’s blessings] are new every morning.                      —Lamentations 3:23 How did your day begin? I’m guessing pretty much the same as yesterday—and the day before yesterday and the day before that. We seldom wake up hearing an angelic choir belting out the “Hallelujah Chorus.” But from […]