Latest Thoughts of the Day

Amos 3:3

10/16/2026

Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?

If you are going to walk in fellowship with God you must want His company, be willing to go where He is going and keep to the pace that He sets. Israel has not shown any interest in these three things, so it is silly to talk about walking together. There is a cause and effect relationship among these elements, and Israel has not shown a personal interest in being with God, or an desire to go the direction God desires or an inclination to let Him set the pace. Like other things that don’t just happen on their own spontaneously, true fellowship with God is not a serendipity. It involves choices and habits and faithfulness. Lord, help us to draw near, to desire to go Your way, and to agree with the pace set by Jesus.

Joel 2:14

10/15/2026

Who knows? He may yet turn and have pity and leave behind a blessing --grain offerings and dink offerings for the Lord your God.

God’s terrible judgment upon the land of Judah has been seen in the devastating effects of repeated waves of devouring locusts. God seems to have visited them and passed along, leaving them desolate. But not altogether without hope. God could yet turn back for a moment, even as he is departing, and He might leave some provision as a parting blessing. We might yet have some provision that we can offer as a thank-offering to God. But the people have come to see that they have no claim upon God’s mercy. It is mercy that they are not all dead. “Who knows?” God may have yet something positive for us. Have we not a covenant promise which God has guaranteed in the person of Jesus?

Hosea 2:23

10/14/2026

I will plant her for myself in the land; I will how my love to th one I called, "Not my loved one."

Peter refers to us as people who were once called not a people but are now the people of God. Here, 700 years before Christ, God pictures His love to the Gentiles in this remarkable picture of commitment to one who deserves only to be rejected forever. Hosea is called to live a picture of God’s love to the underserving, His commitment to rescue those who deserve to be abandoned. Those of us who are not Jews by birth are included in the very same covenant that God promised to Abraham. We have been brought near through the blood of the covenant, shed for us by the Son of God. God has called heaven and earth to witness to His love for us in Jesus.

Daniel 2:13

10/13/2026

So the decrees were issued to put the wise men to death, and men were sent to look for Daniel and his friends to put them to eeath.

The rashness of King Nebuchadnezzar’s decree is extraordinary. Daniel was one of the wise men, and he did not even know about the decree until men came to take him away to death. But this does provide a turning point in the story. Daniel presents himself to Nebuchadnezzar as the man with the answer, and he puts himself in God’s hands, dependent on God Himself for deliverance. It is clear to everyone that the command of the King is impossible for any man to perform. The only possible success must come from intervention by God into the heart and mind of Daniel. History will go on to reveal many cases where deliverance and success depend utterly and entirely upon Jesus.

Ezekiel 2:6

10/12/2026

And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel is living in Babylon as a captive, called of God to preach to fellow captives, appealing to them to abandon the idolatry that has brought them to that place and to return to God. Just as this generation of Israelites had refused to listen to Jeremiah, they would refuse Ezekiel’s ministry, and he must commit himself to preach boldly and faithfully, that they might hear from Heaven and repent. It is hard not to be afraid of your listening audience and to feel that it matters how they respond. “ Ezekiel! The One who helps you is Jesus.

Lamentations 2:12

10/11/2026

They say to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?", as they faint like wounded men in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mother's arms.

Jeremiah had spent his decades-long ministry warning the people of Jerusalem of the disaster that awaited them as they continued in rebellion to God and commitment to idolatry. Far from self-righteous rebuke, we find him offer tears of grief and compassion, as he sees the terrible suffering that the people’s rebellion had brought on. He is known as the “weeping prophet”, and weep he did, in earnest longing for their repentance, and in terrible grief over their punishment. He writes vivid pictures of the people’s anguish and grief. Here are the children suffering want and perplexity. We see everywhere suffering because of sin. We remember that God did not want us to perish, so He sent Jesus.

Jeremiah 2:15

10/10/2026

Lions have roared; they have growled at him, They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.

Jeremiah’s prophecy jumps ahead to the terrible judgment that God will bring upon Judah when He brings against them the armies that will take them captive to Babylon. Laced into everything revealed are appeals for repentance and return to God, with terrible warning of what will come if there is no repentance. During the unfolding of the events that Jeremiah threatens appeals to seek mercy at the hand of God are interlaced. God’s heart cries out to them, but they continually harden their hearts and will none of His mercy. Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet. From this point in the book we sense an increasing inevitability of terrible judgment, and we hear faithful and earnest appeals that they embrace the mercy God is offering in Jesus.

Isaiah 2:3

10/9/2026

Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord vrom Jerusalem.

Key themes come like momentary projections on the screen of Isaiah’s revelation. The suffering servant and the King on His throne are others of this kind, as the book unfolds before us. The New Testament tells us that at the Name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of the Father. This is one of the themes presented in this glorious book, and here is one of Isaiah’s vivid pictures. What has frequently referred to as the Gospel according to Isaiah wonderfully shows us Jesus.