Today’s Walk in the Word

Jonah ran away from the Lord.                    —Jonah 1:3 God ordered Jonah to “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it.” Jonah didn’t cotton to the assignment. Nineveh was the capital of Assyria, Israel’s despised enemy. So Jonah hightailed it in the opposite direction—went […]

The pride of your heart has deceived you.                              —Obadiah 1:3 The Edomites were a cocky bunch: “Who can bring me down?” they crowed. The answer? “I will bring you down, declares the Lord.” When Babylonian soldiers sacked Jerusalem, the Edomites signed […]

“You have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.                                        —Amos 4:6 The phrase “you have not returned to me” surfaces often in the book of Amos—five times in chapter 4. The Lord repeatedly reminded his wayward […]

Rend your heart and not your garments.                                      —Joel 2:13 Joel warned Israel they were going to pay a high price for ditching God: locusts would demolish their fields and destroy their crops. But that didn’t have to […]

As surely as the sun rises, he will appear.                                     —Hosea 6:3 “The soul of many a man has its eastward aspect,” wrote F.W. Boreham. He explained that most people experience long, dreary nights in life. And when […]

If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it.                                  —Daniel 3:17 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego knew that God was able to save them, but didn’t know if he would. […]

This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.                  —Ezekiel 1:28 What will it be like when we see the Lord? Bart Millard wondered about that after the death of his father, and wrote a song about it: “I can only imagine what […]

Let us examine our ways and test them.                —Lamentations 3:40 Self-examination is frequently self-deceptive because we are skillful at self-justification. When we compare ourselves with others, we lean toward comparing our virtues with their vices. We are more tolerant of our own weaknesses and sins than of the […]

Nothing is too hard for you.        —Jeremiah 32:17 You believe that God hears and answers prayer because you have measured the problems that you have had by the prayers that you have prayed, and are certain that God came to the rescue. So you set prayer over against the troubles you are […]

I have loved you with an everlasting love.                           —Jeremiah 31:3 God in heaven doesn’t prohibit tragedy on earth, but he does promise his unfailing love: “Though the mountains be shaken … yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken … […]