Today’s Walk in the Word

I will come back and take you to be with me.           —John 14:3 I haven’t personally made the count, but someone who has wrote that Christ’s second coming is mentioned more than 300 times in the New Testament. “Okay, but what do I do in the meantime?” you may ask. […]

[Jesus] gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age.                  —Galatians 1:4 He flirted with alcohol, and alcohol won. To his credit, he admitted he’d been bested—he was an alcoholic. Thanks to God and AA, he was rescued and has been lifetime grateful. […]

They reported everything God had done through them.                  —Acts 15:4 Can you imagine scissors growing smug after a handsome haircut, a scalpel being pompous after a successful surgery, or a pen boasting about an impressive essay? Of course not—they are only tools. So are we. At the […]

This son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.                     —Luke 15:24 To Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the one story that most powerfully revealed the heart of God was The Parable of the Prodigal Son. He read it often, […]

Jonah ran away from the Lord.                —Jonah 1:3 God ordered Jonah to be his missionary to Nineveh. Jonah didn’t want the assignment, for Nineveh was the capital of Assyria, Israel’s despised enemy. So Jonah hightailed it in the opposite direction—went to Joppa, found a ship sailing for Tarshish, […]

Give me this mountain.       —Joshua 14:12 John W. Gardner, chief architect of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” said that by their mid-thirties most people have stopped acquiring new skills and attitudes in any aspect of their lives. I don’t know if that’s true, but if it is, you don’t have to be […]

By prayer . . . present your requests to God.                          —Philippians 4:6 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will […]

When I am weak, then I am strong.           —2 Corinthians 12:10 2 Corinthians is Paul’s most autobiographical letter. He writes of the deluge of problems that assaulted him: beating, stoning, hunger, persecution, imprisonment—it’s a long list (2 Cor 11:23–29). How bad was it? “We were under great pressure, far beyond […]

My soul is downcast within me.            —Lamentations 3:20 Hopeless! A one-word description of the nation of Judah. Their sins had caught up with them. Jerusalem was in ruins. They were broken and defeated. Jeremiah had repeatedly warned them it was coming, but they had not listened (Jer 25:3). Jeremiah was […]

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