Today’s Walk in the Word

Trust in the Lord.     —Psalm 37:3 “Martha, Martha,” Jesus gently chided, “you are worried and upset about many things” (Lk. 10:41). Psalm 37 opens with these words: “Do not fret.” John Wesley said, “I dare no more fret than curse.” How do you free yourself from fretting? Here is the short answer: keep […]

From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind.                —Psalm 33:13 Watching a Little League game is fun. Watching the parents at a Little League game is even more fun. Their eyes are focused on one thing—their kid. They love that child. He drops a fly ball, […]

Be strong and take heart.            —Psalm 31:24 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 up again and keep going … we never give up (2 Cor. 4:8-9, 16 TLB). […]

O Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever.          —Psalm 30:12 Today let’s think deliverance. Deliverance from frightening times that had good endings. Your biopsy revealed malignancy. But they caught it in time. Your child was in a serious accident. But she survived. Your spouse was wheeled into the operating room […]

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.                          —Psalm 27:14 You have prayed … and prayed … and prayed. Urgently. Earnestly. Pleadingly. But you have seen no response. Even so, don’t quit believing and don’t stop praying. […]

Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely.                                                —Psalm 25:16 Here is a prayer that stirs a sympathetic vibration in the hearts of many elderly: “… in my […]

Show me your ways, O Lord.                    —Psalm 25:4 Jeff Patton felt like he was flying in a bottle of ink. He was certain he was in a climbing right turn, but his instruments indicated he was in a 60 degree dive. It took every ounce of […]

I will fear no evil, for you are with me.                                 —Psalm 23:4 Here’s a nice bouquet of fear-fighting, faith-feeding verses … The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my […]

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”                                           —Psalm 14:1 On the table is a bowl. In it are ten slips of paper, numbered from 1 to 10. If you reach in […]

I trust in your unfailing love.                  —Psalm 13:5 Joseph, Job, and Jesus defined trust by declaring it, not when things were wonderfully good, but when things were terribly bad. Joseph: “You intended to harm me but God intended it for good” (Gen. 50:20). Job: “Though he slay […]