Today’s Walk in the Word

The hour has come for you to wake up.                 —Romans 13:11 The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here (Rom. 13:11, 12). […]

The length of our days is seventy years —or eighty … they quickly pass …               —Psalm 90:10 “It’s a short walk from the womb to the tomb.” It didn’t seem short when we were young. When we finished school, landed our first job, got married (or not), there […]

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.           —1 Corinthians 10:31 You are what you eat. The body regenerates itself from inside out, not outside in. What you pig out on affects your weight; also your hair, skin, teeth, and […]

I will fear no evil, for you are with me.                                  —Psalm 23:4 You know from experience that you won’t get through life without pain. Agonizing ordeals bushwhack good people, not just bad ones. Those who stick to “paths of […]

I am going there to prepare a place for you.       —John 14:2 Jesus came down from his place to our place … A place where there’s not enough food to go around—where starving children go to bed crying until they become too weak to cry. A place where people do terrible things […]

Eutychus … was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on.                  —Acts 20:9 Critics in Corinth ridiculed Paul’s preaching: “you have never heard a worse preacher,” they squawked (2 Cor. 10:10 TLB). Over in Troas, Eutychus said “Amen” by nodding off and tumbling out […]

None of us lives to himself alone.              —Romans 14:7 Splash! A pebble thrown in a pond triggers ever-widening ripples. Every choice you make, every action you take, every word you speak, is your pebble in the pond … kindness or cruelty compassion or coldness gentleness or hostility patience or […]

Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.      —Ecclesiastes 1:2 Solomon isn’t the only one who found life meaningless. Many are stranded in a life in which they find no pleasure or purpose. Take the gal that dropped out of high school and has been stuck in a minimum-wage dead-end job ever since. Or the doctor […]

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.                                —Mark 4:9 Somewhere in those India paper pages of your Bible there is a question that is your question—probably the most important question of your life. We work ourselves into a […]

Do this is remembrance of me.       —1 Corinthians 11:24 When Jesus met for his final Passover with his disciples he broke the bread and picked up the cup: “This is my body … my blood.” When you eat the bread and sip the cup in coming days, “Do this in remembrance of […]