Today’s Walk in the Word

Never will I leave you.    —Hebrews 13:5 Affliction comes in sundry forms: physical, financial, relational, emotional. God’s healing of affliction comes in one of three ways: immediately, gradually, or ultimately. Sometimes God heals immediately; sometimes gradually, over months or years. When he doesn’t heal immediately or gradually, you have the promise of 1 John […]

Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord.   —Ephesians 5:19 Many hymns are miniature Bible studies, distillations of Bible truths that summarize our faith and verbalize our worship. At a revival in 1850, Fanny Crosby experienced an awakening—not from the sermon, but from the last verse of Isaac Watts’ hymn, Alas! and […]

You were called to peace.     —Colossians 3:15 In Jesus’ last meeting with his disciples before his death, he said, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. . . . Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid” (Jn 14:27). On the Sunday evening following his crucifixion, […]

[Your beauty should be] the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit.                   —1 Peter 3:4 Do you have runway beauty that causes you to be by ragged by reporters and pursued by paparazzi? Maybe. Maybe not. Regardless, you are a candidate for beauty unmatched by […]

Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.                —Psalm 55:6 From age eleven until his death at ninety-six, cellist Pablo Casals’ life was consumed with practice and performance. He played for the queen in Madrid and Queen Victoria in […]

The Lord is my strength and my song.                      —Isaiah 12:2 “God is my salvation,” wrote Isaiah; “I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song.” Your emotions are raw from the chafing manacles of fear. Fear that […]

How many loaves do you have?                     —Mark 8:5 Back-to-back unachievable demands had the apostles perplexed. Jesus was telling them to do the impossible. According to Mark 6, he told them to feed an enormous crowd. Impossible! “How many loaves do you have?” he asked. “Five—and […]

Father, forgive them.     —Luke 23:34 The first of Jesus’ seven statements from the cross was, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” The callous centurion who supervised Jesus’ death had seen many grisly crucifixions. But he saw and heard things that day that he had never seen or […]

Night is coming, when no one can work.                                —John 9:4 Henry Buckle was writing his History of Civilization when he was zapped by a debilitating fever. In his delirium, he repeatedly moaned, “Oh, to finish my book!” Cecil Rhodes, British […]

Now is the day of salvation.        —2 Corinthians 6:2 URGENT! A June letter said I needed to renew a gift subscription immediately—even though the expiration date wasn’t until December. URGENT! A July alert said I needed to renew my magazine subscription immediately—even though I was paid up through January. URGENT! An August […]