Today’s Walk in the Word

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 […]

Lord, I want to see.     —Luke 18:41 Last year I was diagnosed with a detached retina in my right eye. For several weeks after surgery, I could see nothing with that eye, and for several months, very little. It awakened my awareness of how blind and deaf I am to many of God’s […]

Love is patient. —1 Corinthians 13:4 In Paul’s inspired definition of love, the first ingredient is patience. Three objects of patience come to mind: Be patient with yourself. By the time you’re twenty-one, you are as tall as you will ever be. But no matter how many candles are on your cake, your spiritual growth […]

People did whatever they felt like doing.                             —Judges 17:6 Micah’s mother was less than a mother should be: she hired a silversmith to cast an idol for her son. Such was the culture of the times. The judges were gone, and […]