Today’s Walk in the Word

Let your light shine before others.                  —Matthew 5:16 I left my credit card on the table at the restaurant where I dined last night. As I drove back to retrieve it, I thought about other things I had left behind. I left more than my credit card—I […]

[God] determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.              —Psalm 147:4 If astronomers’ calculations are correct, there are more than one hundred billion galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars. They say our Milky Way galaxy has between two and four hundred billion stars. […]

Make every effort to confirm your calling and election.         —2 Peter 1:10 This day won’t leave you as it found you. It will leave you stronger or weaker—with faith, hope, and love enlarged or diminished. It will leave you more congenial or more disagreeable, more thoughtful or more inconsiderate, more judgmental […]

Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart.          —Hebrews 3:15 I have a sticky note in my Bible with the following words: “This morning I woke up to something that never was before and never will be again. And the me that woke up was never the same […]

Gossips can’t keep secrets.          —Proverbs 11:13 Renowned preacher Henry Ward Beecher received an anonymous letter with just one word: “Fool!” Reading it to his congregation, he said, “I’ve received quite a few letters from people who forgot to sign their name, but this is the first one I’ve ever received from […]

You should mind your own business.              —1 Thessalonians 4:11 I resolve that when I think critically of someone, I will remind myself to mind my own business. I resolve to reject fixating on another’s flaws and focusing instead on my own. I resolve to remember that I will be […]

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.               —Psalm 147:3 You try to convince yourself that what brought you to the physician’s waiting room isn’t serious—all the while thinking it may be. Stripped of your bravado, most of your clothes, and all of your dignity, you wait. […]

I trust in your word.    —Psalm 119:42 Irv Gordon got his spot in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1998 when his 1966 Volvo clocked 1.69 million miles—the most ever driven by a single owner of a non-commercial vehicle. But Irv wasn’t done: in 2013, his Volvo’s odometer hit its 3-millionth mile. He […]

They will still bear fruit in old age.                        —Psalm 92:14 Change! Youth is too eager for it; older folks are too resistant to it. Young people will change careers with less concern than the elderly will change what they have for breakfast. Everyone knows […]

Grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.        —Ephesians 4:15 I always asked Larry the same question: “How are you?” He always gave the same answer: “As well as can be expected for an old man.” Larry thought like an old man. Moved like an old man. […]