His Word for Today

This morning’s verses speak of His promotion and abundance, leading believers into a fall and lack. Why does this happen? One cause could be a lack of maturity to handle His blessings. Because the Lord blessed them, He must have trusted them that they would be able to handle them with wisdom, but the Israelis could not. This is one of the reasons why what matters at an eternal level is our maturity in character. We must choose to continue to grow in Christ despite all of the

This morning’s verse talks about being strong and courageous. Even though the Lord revealed to Joshua how the Israelis would be after conquering the promised land, He still fought the good fight of faith (See 1 Timothy 6:12), focused on His assignment for him. Because all things work together for good (See Romans 8:28), we can leave the rest to the Lord and focus our hearts on the assignment at hand. We may wish we had a better job or opportunity, but, like Joshua, we can ch

This morning’s verses talk about transitions and seasons. When Moses was 120 years old, he handed over leadership to Joshua so Joshua could cross the Jordan River into the promised land. Whatever season we are in, this season will not last forever. We will move into the next season of walks with Christ. What is He revealing to us in this season? We may tend to look at our vocations, finances, physical locations, etc., when we think about seasons, but one of the areas that la

This morning’s verses talk about the choices we make. Do we choose life or death? We may all want to choose life, but what are our blind spots that are keeping us from experiencing life? This is one of the reasons why we need the Counsellor, the Holy Spirit, Who teaches us all things. (See John 14:26) We can choose to continue to grow each day and experience His life. We may have grown past what we have been working on, and a new opportunity to grow shows up to experience mor

This morning’s verses talk about His Word being in us. Christ is the Word (See John 1:1, John 1:14), and Christ lives in us. (See Galatians 2:20) The Scripture even says that we know all things. (See 1 John 2:20) Therefore, it is our choice to fight the good fight of faith (See 1 Timothy 6:12) to be intentional (See Colossians 3:23) about choosing to follow Christ to become more like Him in character (See 2 Corinthians 3:18), which has eternal implications. (See 2 Corinthi

This morning’s verse talks about what the Lord has revealed to us and what He hasn’t. In other words, we need to constantly trust in Him because He hasn’t revealed everything to us. We have the Bible, the Holy Spirit giving us specific guidance (See John 14:26), but He says in today’s Scriptures that there are secret things. We can choose to press on each day knowing more and more about Him, but we would still have areas of unknown about Him. So our role is to go as far as w

This morning’s verse talks about justice dealing with the marginalized in society. Our motives in life are revealed by how we treat those who are seen as insignificant in our lives. Because we have Christ in us, it shouldn’t matter what the societal status is when it comes to relating with them. The question we should ask ourselves is, would we still do what the Lord has spoken to us to do even if we would not get anything back in return? Today, let us assess our motives. In

Today's verses talk about the oneness of believers. And most importantly, believers' oneness with the Lord. Because of our oneness with...