Latest Thoughts of the Day

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.

Song of Songs 2:17

10/8/2026

Until the day break and the shadows flee, turn, my love and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.

This connects with the previous verse to show the young man alone for the night, but there is a longing as the day breaks for him, with all graceful and glorious energy to leap obstacles to come back to her. The next night she would venture out to look for him putting herself in danger and asking help from the night watchmen. Then she will come upon him and rejoice. Our verse for today expresses the longing she feels and the deep desire that he come to her. She is desolate without the company of him whom her soul loves. Like a deer pants after the water brooks, our souls long for our Savior and we seek for fellowship with Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

10/7/2026

For the wise man, like the fool will not be long remembered; in days to come he will be forgotten. like the fool, the wise man must die.

Solomon is battling through the issues of life and death. He will try very hard to make sense of life without having to deal with God at all. “Under the sun” is the phrase he uses to consider the world and everything in it without bringing into consideration eternity. He is troubled by the end of life because in many cases he observes it does not make sense. People die at the wrong time, and without reference to whether their lives are valuable or worthless. Cynicism and bitterness often seems like the only reasonable response. He does not want to settle there, but it is a struggle because he does not take into account the person and work of Jesus.

Proverbs 2:1

10/6/2026

MY SON, IF YOU ACCEPT MY WORDS AND STORE UP MY COMMANDS WITHIN YOU,...

Take seriously the word of God for what it is, think about it and determine to remember what you have thought about and great blessing will be yours. Solomon goes on to emphasize the diligence in which we should approach our study and the persistence with which we should pursue our study. He will go on to tell us that understanding of what God has revealed and a genuine relationship with him will be the result. When a person is born-again by the Spirit of God, he is given a heart that desires to do what Solomon challenges him to do here. What we receive by study is not what we are paid for the work we have done, but rather what happens to us when these goals have occupied our thoughts about Jesus.

Psalm 4:8

10/5/2026

I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me to dell in safety.

Disquiet and anxiety seem to be the way of life for those surrounding David, but David is thankful for having seen that peace comes from God. Safety is something we tell ourselves we have when we have locked the doors, but it could be we are locking in a real danger. Circumstances of life can be manipulated so that I am fairly certain to come out all right, but I could have missed something. Earthquakes and tornadoes shake and tear up the strongest shelters. David sees that his only security is that he is kept by the power of God unto salvation. When He remembers that God loves him, he really stops worrying and loses himself in God’s embrace. He can surrender consciousness safe in the arms of Jesus.

Job 2:12

10/4/2026

When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads.

On their way to visit Job, had these men thought about outward things they would do to show their grief and distress over his condition? There were accepted ways to show such things in those days. Perhaps they were glad to know these practices because they really felt the amazement and grief they were regarded as expressing. The words do express to us something of a show. In what ways was seven days of silence primarily protocol? The words they finally speak come across as more critical than sympathetic. They are quick to try to blame Job for his dilemma. Help us, Lord, genuinely to feel and honestly to comfort grieving friends. You comfort us in this way, Lord Jesus.

Esther 3:3

10/3/2026

Before a girl's turn to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh, and six with perfumes and cosmetics

Overall charm and deportment lessons must have gone along with cosmetic regimen with a goal to make beauty and fashion a natural part of her life. It had to be a part of her nature to be the person the king was told he should expect a woman to be. That any woman’s true character and individuality would remain intact at all is a marvel. That Esther retained the quality that attracted Xerxes is a testimony to the glory of our sovereign God. The world would squeeze us into its mold. With all the ways society would seek to mold us, Lord, help us retain the character of one who loves Jesus.

Nehemiah 3:3

10/2/2026

The fishgate was rebuilt by the sons of Hassanaah. They laid its beams and put its doors and bolts and bars in place

Far more skill and ingenuity is needed to install a gate than to arrange stones for a wall. Hassenaah and his family needed to obtain wood and iron hardware, to shape and to install it in a way that would make the gate secure and functioning. He probably volunteered to do that section, since the skill needed would not be possessed by the ordinary worker on the project. God rewarded him by including his name in the account of the rebuilding and indicating the area of expertise he had exercised. Help us, Lord, to serve you not simply with our time, but with our skills. Help us do what no other individual can do. Help us use our personal strengths to the glory of Jesus.