Today’s Walk in the Word

Give thanks in all circumstances.            —1 Thessalonians 5:18 Water is an unimaginable luxury for many in our world, where 1.2 billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water. That’s not a problem for most of us. We have cold water, hot water, clean water. Today be intentionally aware of […]

What does the Lord require of you?                        —Micah 6:8 His name was Seacat. Russell Seacat. Dr. Russell Seacat. I loved to hear him pray. I knew how his prayer would end—for he ended every prayer the same way: “Lord God, help us to act […]

I will deliver you.   —Psalm 50:15 Robinson Crusoe’s wake-up verse was, “Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee” (Ps 50:15). The story is fiction, but the text isn’t: “Call upon me . . . I will deliver you.” It is a promise of his presence: “Call upon me.” Many […]

Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.                   —Psalm 27:14 “We are perplexed because we don’t know why things happen as they do, but we don’t give up and quit . . . We get knocked down, but we get […]

Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God.    —Deuteronomy 8:11 Alzheimer’s. Scary word. All of us know someone who is a victim. We have seen its devastation. When we experience a memory lapse, we get an uneasy feeling that we may be headed for the twilight zone of the dreaded “A.” […]

A cheerful heart has a continual feast.                     —Proverbs 15:15 Molly Picon, star of Yiddish stage and film, spent hundreds of nights in crowded hotel rooms with members of her theatrical company. Grumbling was constant—by everybody but Molly. One night a voice out of the darkness […]

Those who look to him are radiant.                        —Psalm 34:5 Robert Blondin interviewed more than 600 people in numerous nations. He asked one question: “What makes people happy?” The answers were pretty much the same everywhere. People are happy because they are in control of […]

Be transformed by the renewal of your mind.                                        —Romans 12:2 Viktor Frankl said, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of […]

Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.          —Proverbs 16:3 If you go for spiritual growth with your New Year’s resolutions, you’ll score big dividends. Paul put it this way: “Live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature” (Gal 5:16). […]

His mercies begin afresh each day.                  —Lamentations 3:23 Cheers to a New Year and another chance to get it right. It’s too late to change your past but not your future. At the beginning of this New Year, you have 365 blank pages—each to be scripted with […]