Today’s Walk in the Word

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”        —Ecclesiastes 7:10 The “good old days” weren’t all they’re cracked up to be. The paradise that we remember has been embellished by imagination. In any case, those days are long gone. Living one day at a time has much to commend […]

Preserve sound judgment and discernment.                               —Proverbs 3:21 Here’s a little bouquet of aphorisms I’ve gathered for you from previous posts in this space. Failure will rarely come because I try and fail, but because I fail to try. I don’t […]

What kind of people ought you to be?                         —2 Peter 3:11 Oswald Chambers wrote: “Every moral question or call comes with an ‘ought’ behind it.” One way to deal with an “ought to” is to numb the conscience so it’s no longer a […]

[God] cares for those who trust in him.                            —Nahum 1:7 Have you ever boarded an airplane without knowing the pilot? Ever climbed into a taxi without knowing the driver? Ever sat in an examining room without knowing the doctor? Ever followed the […]

Do not worry about your life.              –Matthew 6:25 What was your #1 worry twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Let me make it easy. What was at the top of your worry list five years ago? There’s a good chance that you don’t remember. But even if you do, […]

Our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed.                               —Romans 8:18 Sometimes God’s children get testy when trouble comes. Why doesn’t he deliver the righteous from trouble and dump it on the wicked? Asaph complained […]

I will trust and not be afraid.                —Isaiah 12:2 What are you afraid of? Terrorism? Failure? Being alone? Shaky financial future? Illness? Old age? “Do not be afraid.” That’s what God said to Abram: “Do not be afraid, I am your shield” (Gn 15:1). He said the same […]

You will always reap what you sow.                     —Galatians 6:7 You reap what you sow. That’s the law. Consistent. Unalterable. Irrevocable. Sow wheat—reap wheat. Sow cotton—reap cotton. It’s that simple. And that certain. Some people expect the worst; if anything can go wrong, it will—and, sure […]

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.                —Psalm 27:14 Best-selling author Sarah Breathnach said, “When I wrote Simple Abundance it was turned down 30 times before I got a publisher. Looking back, if it had been published earlier it never would […]

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed.                                 —Romans 4:18 I was in my mid-twenties when I pulled into a scenic turnout on the California coast. I was fascinated by a small boat riding an angry ocean a hundred or […]