Tag: Today in the Word

If the power of human touch is so tremendous, one can only imagine the power of God’s touch. Our reading today gives us one example in Jeremiah.

Jesus reveals to His disciples one of the features of the salvation He promises: we will have bodies capable of drinking and eating.

This is a craving shared by God, who also loves righteousness and justice, and ultimately God’s will is to be done “on earth as it is in heaven”

In much the same way, the book of Numbers records the Israelites’ growing contempt for God’s miraculous provision of manna.

How can you closely follow the pioneering Spirit and perfecter of our faith? You might ask an accountability partner to pray about this with you.

Jesus says, "If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light." May we have healthy and good eyes focused on the Lord!

Proverbs 29:13 undercuts all such pretensions to self-sufficiency, reminding us that God “gives sight to the eyes of both” the poor and the oppressor—that is, to all people.

God used the natural world to remind Job of the mysteries of the Creator. Both what we do and don’t understand about the world should reinforce our trust in God.

Scripture credits God for the everyday wonders of the sun rising and the rain falling. What wonders of God might you be overlooking in your own life?

The serpent’s temptations in Genesis 3 only succeed because they present human beings with something that appears good—the ability to be like God.