Bible Verse for Today

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

—Jeremiah 6:16 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Many times, temptation is a choice between the old and proven good path (God's will for us) and a "new" path provided by Satan. So often, Satan's path is presented to us as a shortcut to happiness, prosperity, and accomplishment...

 

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

—James 4:15 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

While I like to have choices and must be responsible for my own decisions, I am genuinely thankful that the LORD allows me to submit my life to his will and entrust my future to him. The Father is at work in me to do his will (Philippians 2:13) and to work for my best good (Romans 8:28). So, I gladly acknowledge that my plans are subject to his will...

 

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

—Romans 8:35-37 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

More than conquerors! What a great phrase. Conquerors are what we are in Jesus. In fact, Paul says, "we are MORE than conquerors through him who loved us." No hardship, enemy, physical disaster, not...

 

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

—Romans 6:13 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

We come to today's message after this past week of verses about being forgiven, purified, cleansed, and made holy. This long verse boils down to a very simple message: We are to glorify God through what we do with our bodies. We...

 

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

—Psalm 103:12 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Let's praise and thank God our Father. He doesn't just forgive our sins; he removes them from us completely. Hallelujah!

My Prayer...​

Loving and merciful Father and holy God, thank you for giving me the great gift of your unfathomable forgiveness. Now, dear LORD, please help me to pass it along to others as I seek to be a conduit of...

 

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

—Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Jeremiah was telling God's people that 70 years after the devastation they were facing because of their rebellion and sins, God would deliver and restore them. Even though they had repeatedly abandoned God, he would not abandon them or his promises to them. He would be faithful (2 Timothy 2:13). In...

 

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

—Isaiah 61:10 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

This is God's promise to his people after their Messiah comes with healing and power to bless them with the LORD's favor. In many ways, this is our promise as...

 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

—1 John 1:9 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

When we view our sins the same way that God does and confess them, God forgives and purifies us. Honest confession opens our hearts to the flood of heaven's grace (Psalm 51:1-17; Psalm 103:11-14). God shares with us the sweet liberation from sin that Jesus purchased at Calvary (1 John 2:1-2). God not only forgives...

 

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

—Micah 6:8 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Sometimes we need God to make what he wants from us plain and simple to understand. I need to handle those around me justly — practicing patience and dealing with others in fairness, without partiality, and treating them as I would like to be treated. I also need to practice mercy —...

 

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you...

—Matthew 7:7 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

God wants us to seek his blessings. This is not because he wants to manipulate our lives, but because he longs to bless us and have us know the gifts in our lives come from him. So let's seek his presence, his grace, and his blessing. As we do, let's remember this promise is in a section of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount where he...