Today’s Walk in the Word

Let me know how fleeting is my life.                              —Psalm 39:4 Would a review of your schedule reveal chunks of time that could be better used? Americans, on average, spend four hours a day watching TV—half as much time as they spend […]

I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin.                  —Psalm 39:1 Bullying is not harmless; it is brutal. The number one cause of teen suicide is bullying by speech. “The tongue has the power of life and death” (Prov. 18:21). “Sticks and stones may break […]

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.                                                  —Psalm 37:7 Try these “wait” verses on for size. You’ll find one that fits. Wait for the Lord, and he will […]

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 […]