Daily Verse

For [the Father] has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves... —Colossians 1:13Thoughts on Today's Verse...God doesn't just hear our cries for deliverance; he also sends us powerful deliverers! God sent Moses in response to the Israelites' cries from Egypt (Exodus 3:1-9). God sent David in response to Goliath's ridicule of God's people by the Philistines (1 Samuel 17:1-50). […]

O LORD, ... be not silent. Do not be far from me, O Lord. Awake, and rise to my defense! Contend for me, my God and Lord.—Psalm 35:22-23Thoughts on Today's Verse...God sometimes does seem distant, as if he is not listening to us. Think of the hundreds of years Israel was in bondage, praying for God's promised Deliverer. "Isn't God listening?" they repeatedly wondered. "Why have you abandoned us, O, […]

Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.—Daniel 12:3Thoughts on Today's Verse...God promised a sifting between the righteous and the unrighteous both in this life and before the life to come. Jesus repeated the same assurance of such a sifting in his parables. For God's people, however, promises to sift — to […]

I will praise God's name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. —Psalm 69:30Thoughts on Today's Verse...When was the last time you sang praises to God outside a church building or devotional service with other believers? Why not open up the Psalms and find several verses that reflect your personal praise and thanks to God? Then, give them a tune — your own tune! God doesn't care if your spiritual […]

For this is what the high and exalted One says — he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.”—Isaiah 57:15Thoughts on Today's Verse...As many of us leave our season of Thanksgiving and transition into the […]

Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.—Philippians 2:14-15Thoughts on Today's Verse...Don't complain or argue! We don't usually associate these things with purity and blamelessness, do we? Paul was extraordinarily close to these Philippians, and he knew them well. He knew their strengths and […]

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.—Romans 15:4Thoughts on Today's Verse...If the Bible is a love story, then its theme is hope. No matter how dire the circumstances, no matter how big the enemy, no matter how deep the sin, no matter how lost the people, no matter how empty […]

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.—Psalm 34:18Thoughts on Today's Verse...While many of us are richly blessed spiritually and physically, many of God's people face hardship and difficulty. You may be one of those in difficult circumstances. Please remember that God has not abandoned you. Jesus is the great reminder that God cares and involves himself with the broken, forgotten, and downtrodden. […]

You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.—2 Corinthians 9:11Thoughts on Today's Verse...As we examine our blessings and thank God for his wonderful grace, let's ask why God has blessed us so much. Let's also remember the primary spiritual principle God made clear in today's Scripture and his call to […]