Today’s Walk in the Word

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.                                  —Proverbs 27:1 There is something you ought to do that you’ve been putting off, right? A letter you ought to write. An apology […]

I have loved you with an everlasting love.                         —Jeremiah 31:3 Scottish minister and hymnist Gorge Matheson wrote, “Something happened to me, which caused me the most severe mental suffering.” What was it? His fiancée returned his engagement ring when she was informed that […]

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.                               —Colossians 3:23 On September 7, 1860, the steamboat Lady Elgin, with 398 passengers on board, collided with another vessel in Lake Michigan. Edward Spencer, a university student, swimming relentlessly, brought […]

Reject every kind of evil.  —1 Thessalonians 5:22 The Bible asks questions. And frequently gives answers to those questions. Here’s one for you. In Psalm 34:12, the writer asks, “Do any of you want to live a life that is long and prosperous?” We raise our hand and say, “I do, I do!” Then he […]

Do not be wise in your own eyes.                   —Proverbs 3:7 Opinionated. Dogmatic. Inflexible. Does anyone come to mind? He may be smart as a whip, but as Welsh minister and author Matthew Henry opined, “the only thing such a person’s knowledge does for him is puff […]

I press on toward the goal to win the prize.                            —Philippians 3:14 Peter was slammed with a hurricane of emotions the night he denied Jesus: distress, dejection, disappointment. He was tormented and terrified. Before the night was over, he stumbled out of […]

Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.                                     —Hebrews 13:5 My mother was ninety-nine years old when she left Earth. I had been alive almost 30,000 days at the time. It would be a safe […]

On him we have set our hope.     —2 Corinthians 1:10 Things didn’t go well for Paul and his pals in Ephesus. “We felt we were doomed to die and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves; but that was good, for then we put everything into the hands of God . . […]

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst.                  —1 Timothy 1:15 The body count was rising. Paul was rounding up Christians, jailing them, and voting for their execution (Acts 26:10). Can this cold-blooded villain be saved? In his own words: “Even […]

A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.                           —Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard—variously translated as slacker or slothful—has laid down his tools, decided not to work. Or just decided not to decide. He has given […]