Bible Verse for Today

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

—Ecclesiastes 5:2 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Even in our TikTok®, short sound-byte world, far too often, many words are spoken in pledge to God that go unfulfilled. We are also tempted to pray long prayers, thinking God will hear us because of our many words (Matthew 6:7). Instead, let's thank him, praise...

 

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ...

—Romans 5:1 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

The cost of peace is always high. Jesus' enormous sacrifice purchased our peace with God. God made sure the price for our rebellion was paid, but he didn't make us pay it because we could never have fulfilled our obligation. Instead, God paid it himself, in Jesus, and asked us to believe this "too-good-to-be-true" gift is true through his...

 

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

—Ephesians 4:30-31 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Don't cause God's Holy Spirit to grieve! But how do we do we cause the Spirit of God to grieve? By harboring bitterness, unleashing anger-driven rage, brawling with others, and slandering the name of people or plotting to...

 

But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

—Deuteronomy 4:29 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

When was the last time you yearningly searched after God? I'm not talking about an obscure theological insight about God you got from a preacher or another best-selling book about God. When was the last time you sought after the Father so that you could know him better, recognize his nearness...

 

For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

—Acts 4:28 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

The cross of Golgotha and the sacrifice of Jesus for our sins were no afterthought or mistake. Jesus came as God's anointed, his holy Messiah, the Christ, the Suffering Servant, to die for the sins of the people and bring life and immortality to us. Those who were evil and conspired to kill Jesus as they sought to preserve their power and position as...

 

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

—John 4:23-24 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

God seeks true worshippers. He seeks those who long to praise him passionately and authentically as they praise him spirit to spirit. To help us in our quest, he gives us his Spirit to help us...

 

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

—Proverbs 4:27 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

When I see someone swerving in and out of their lane during heavy traffic, I immediately go into a defensive driving mode. Whether they are drunk, sleepy, distracted, or just plain careless, I know they are dangerous because they are swerving "to the right and left." God wants us to know the same is true of us when we allow ourselves to be distracted...

 

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

—Ephesians 4:26-27 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Pent-up anger is an explosion waiting to happen. Sooner or later, the pent-up frustration will explode, either in our own lives or into the lives of others. Jesus taught us to forgive and to reconcile (Matthew 18). We must deal with our anger, TODAY! Otherwise, the devil will use it to abuse us as well as others in our lives...

 

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

—Romans 4:25 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Why are the Cross and the Empty Tomb so important? Everything essential and truly lasting in this life and our salvation in the life to come depends upon Jesus' death and resurrection! Jesus came to earth, lived among us as one of us, went to the cross, was buried in a borrowed tomb, and was raised victorious over death, sin, and hell for us — to...

 

And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given: For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.

—Mark 4:24-25 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

"O be careful little ears what you hear ... for the Father up above is looking down in love, so be careful little ears what you hear." Sometimes, our children's songs say...