Today’s Walk in the Word

Lord, I want to see.     —Luke 18:41 Last year I was diagnosed with a detached retina in my right eye. For several weeks after surgery, I could see nothing with that eye, and for several months, very little. It awakened my awareness of how blind and deaf I am to many of God’s […]

Love is patient. —1 Corinthians 13:4 In Paul’s inspired definition of love, the first ingredient is patience. Three objects of patience come to mind: Be patient with yourself. By the time you’re twenty-one, you are as tall as you will ever be. But no matter how many candles are on your cake, your spiritual growth […]

People did whatever they felt like doing.                             —Judges 17:6 Micah’s mother was less than a mother should be: she hired a silversmith to cast an idol for her son. Such was the culture of the times. The judges were gone, and […]

Well done, good and faithful servant!                      —Matthew 25:23 Perusing the thirty-two obituaries in last Sunday’s Houston Chronicle, I noticed that every one of the deceased was a saint—not a bad apple in the bunch. I have no quarrel with praising the dear departed’s good points […]

Love never fails. —1 Corinthians 13:8 To the radiant young royals standing at the altar in Westminster Abbey, the presiding Archbishop of York gave this sage counsel: “We wish you happiness, but you will not find happiness by seeking it. You will find it by scattering it. Let each of you make the other happy; […]

Night is coming, when no one can work.                                 —John 9:4 When the Israelites were rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Nehemiah said they worked “from the first light of dawn till the stars came out” (Neh 4:21). The period between […]

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous.                                 —1 Peter 3:12 1 Peter 3:12 promises two things: “the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their prayer.” It’s as if he […]

[They] did not inquire of the Lord.                       —Joshua 9:14 The Gibeonite delegation lived twenty-five miles down the road from Joshua’s camp at Gilgal but lied and said they had come from a distant land and wanted a treaty of peace. Joshua and his pals […]

The sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit.          —Galatians 5:17 “God prohibits all those things in life that are fun,” growled a disgruntled miscreant. Someone caricatured God as a “celestial Scrooge” peering over the balcony of heaven; spotting a happy person, he yelled, “Now cut that out!” The only […]

Even to your old age . . . I am he who will sustain you.            —Isaiah 46:4 C.S. Lewis resisted conversion until midway in his life, yet became the greatest apologist of his generation, writing over thirty books defending Christianity—all of which remain in print fifty-nine years after his death. […]