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MORNING— Unwavering Trust “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” There is something unsettling about walking in the dark. Even in your own house. You think you know the layout. You’ve walked the…

MORNING— Where Wisdom Begins “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Do you want a good life? Not just survival. Not just getting by. But a life marked by strength, stability, and satisfaction? Proverbs opens with that promise. Solomon, son of David, king of Israel, lays out…

MORNING— Known All the Way Through “O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up;You understand my thought from afar.” Psalm 139 confronts us with the kind of truth that steadies our day before it even begins: you are not a mystery to God.…

MORNING— Blessed Unity “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!” A story is told of a tiny pygmy warrior standing proudly over a dead rhinoceros. Someone asked, “Did you kill that?”“Yeah,” he said, “I killed it.”“How?”“With my club.”“How big is your club?”“About a hundred of us.” There…

MORNING— A Cry from Rock Bottom “In my trouble I cried to the LORD, and He answered me. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.” Psalm 120 stands at the bottom of a staircase. If you glance at the headings in your Bible from Psalm 120 through 134, you’ll see…

MORNING— Praise at the Bookends “It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your faithfulness by night..” Psalm 92 is the only psalm specifically marked “for the Sabbath,” and it opens by framing time itself. Morning and…

MORNING— God’s Recovery Plan “I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a…

MORNING— A Shepherd for the Directionally Challenged “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures;He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.” Some people seem to have an internal GPS. They always…

MORNING— Ground Zero “My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?  Far from deliverance are the words of my groaning.” There is a place in England that looks almost forgettable at first glance—a thin metal line set into stone on a hill at Greenwich. It marks zero degrees longitude. Ground zero. The place from…

MORNING— God, You Do Good Work! “O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth.” You don’t have to be a folk-music fan, and you don’t have to like granola or wear hiking boots to understand why John Denver wrote Rocky Mountain High. All you need is a scenic turnout. Most…