Today’s Walk in the Word

Lean not on your own understanding.                       —Proverbs 3:5 It isn’t easy to trust God when you’re neck-deep in problems you don’t understand. But that’s what trust is—confidence in God, not in your own understanding. Trust is certainty that God is in control when it […]

Fools despise wisdom and discipline.                      —Proverbs 1:7 Only once in the Bible God called a man a fool (Lk. 12:20). But there are many references to the traits of fools. Some refer to disposition: Quarrelsome: “every fool is quick to quarrel” (Prov. 20:3). Angry: “A […]

He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.             —Psalm 147:4 If astronomers’ calculations are correct, there are more than 100 billion galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars. Our own Solar System, just one member of the Milky Way galaxy, has 200 to […]

Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.                    —Psalm 144:4 Average life expectancy in the U.S. at this writing is 78.7 years. Compressing that to a 12-month calendar, if you are 30 years old, it is April 18; if you are 35, […]

Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.                           —Psalm 141:3 Two of the Ten Commandments censor sins of the tongue: “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain” and […]

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.               —Psalm 139:14 Your heart weighs about a half pound and pumps five quarts of blood through your body every 60 seconds. If you live an average life-span it will beat 2.8 billion times. Your lungs will breathe in […]

You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.                 —Psalm 139:3 The hurricane-tracking graphic commonly seen on TV is cone-shaped. The point of the cone—the hurricane’s present location—is out in the ocean. From that small point the cone’s sides taper […]

You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.                         —Psalm 139:2 There’s an all-seeing eye watching you! Remember that song? It was intended to keep you on the straight-and-narrow. God was watching everything you did, hearing everything […]

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.                            —Psalm 136:1 The bookends of Israel’s forty-year desert trek were unrequested blessings. The first was when they left Egypt and God gave them a dry-ground crossing of the Red Sea. The second was […]

I wait for the Lord … and in his word I put my hope.                                            —Psalm 130:5 “Are we there yet?” “How long ’til Christmas?” Childhood impatience often spills over into adult life. The gap […]