Today’s Walk in the Word

In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice.     —Psalm 5:3 Paul got into a terrible mess in Ephesus: “We were really crushed and overwhelmed, and feared we would never live through it. We felt we were doomed to die and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves; but that was good, […]

You are the God who sees me.              —Genesis 16:13 License plate recognition cameras are perched on toll booth canopies in Houston. Thinking they could game the system, six non-paying scofflaws amassed debts of more than $30,000; the most egregious violator racked up $46,000. Some people, edgy about judgment, think […]

If you do these things, you will never fall.                                  —2 Peter 1:10 Here are two baskets of sevens that you should keep well-stocked in your spiritual pantry. The wisdom that comes from heaven (James 3:17): Pure Peace-loving Considerate Submissive […]

I hear a mighty rainstorm coming.                        —1 Kings 18:41 There hadn’t been a drop of rain in three years, and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. But Elijah said, “I hear a mighty rainstorm coming.” God said he would send rain and Elijah […]

Jesus told his disciples . . . they should always pray and not give up.                   —Luke 18:1 POW Sgt Carl Peek was incarcerated in a prison camp where the food was wretched, the stench nauseating, and the heat torturous. One day while agonizing over his seemingly […]

I will lie down and sleep in peace.                        —Psalm 4:8 Fear of burglars kept Martha from getting a good night’s sleep. One night she heard a noise, shook her husband awake, and sent him to investigate. He’d been through the drill many times, but […]

I will come back and take you to be with me.                                         —John 14:3 You ate at each other’s table, talked over the backyard fence, went places together, and laughed and cried with one another. Then […]

I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom.  —1 Corinthians 2:1 William Boyd Carpenter (1841–1918), a Church of England cleric and Queen Victoria’s favorite preacher, was asked if he was nervous when preaching to the Queen. He said he never considered that he was singularly addressing Her Majesty. “Glancing around the Chapel Royal I […]

From everlasting to everlasting you are God.                                     —Psalm 90:2 Four times in Ezekiel 14, God homes in on Noah, Daniel, and Job as worthy of his praise. It seems like a strange pairing: Noah and Job had […]

You are not under law, but under grace.                          —Romans 6:14 Modern-day advertising gurus didn’t invent the “What’s in it for me?” strategy. For all his country-boy reputation, John the Baptist, in introducing Jesus to his hearers, said, “From the fullness of his grace […]