Today’s Walk in the Word

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.         —Revelations 21:6 The Library of Congress is the largest literary repository in the world. It occupies three buildings in Washington D.C., with a collection of more than 40 million books. Half of them are in English, every one of […]

I am the Alpha and the Omega.             —Revelation 1:8 The “I am’s” of Jesus proclaim his incomparable eminence: “I am the bread of life.” “I am the light of the world.” “I am the door.” “I am the good shepherd.” “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” […]

[Your beauty] should be that of your inner self.                                      —1 Peter 3:4 Physical beauty isn’t a vice, but it is a danger—to both the one who has it and the one who observes it. The one who […]

The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty, if we have the strength.                  —Psalm 90:10 I recently asked an 80-year-old friend how he was feeling. He said, “I feel good, except for the parts that hurt.” Looking in the mirror that evening, I thought, “I’m […]

To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever.            —1 Peter 4:11 In 1 Peter 4:10, the apostle charges us to “serve one another with the particular gifts God has given each of you” (1 Pt 4:10). In verse 11, he specifies two crucial activities of the […]

Let us not become weary in doing good.                           —Galatians 6:9 At the Shibuya train station in Tokyo, there is a statue of a dog: Hachikō. Hachikō’s master, Hidesabuō Ueno, was a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. Every afternoon, Hachikō came to […]

Be faithful until death.     —Revelation 2:10 Polycarp was born in Smyrna in 69 A.D. and died there in 155 A.D. The apostle John’s letter to the church in Smyrna—which included the words, “Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life”—was read to the church in Smyrna when Polycarp […]

She found herself working in a field belonging to Boaz.              —Ruth 2:3 You do what you have to do. For Ruth, that meant scavenging the fields picking up grain that the harvesters had missed so she and her mother-in-law could eat. “Now she just happened to end up in […]

Be holy, because I am holy.             —1 Peter 1:16 Jen didn’t have high hopes about her job interview with the technology-consulting firm. She couldn’t write a line of computer code and knew next to nothing about the business. “We’ll get back to you,” they said. She was surprised when […]

Some people ruin themselves by their own stupid actions.        —Proverbs 19:3 Ali, a vibrant teenager, caved in to peer pressure and became addicted to heroin. Intervention brought her to admission, and she entered rehab. In an interview after treatment, Ali was asked what advice she would give to teenagers about drugs. “Just […]