Category: 2026
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Day 148: Meet Me in the Middle (Psalm 117)
Psalm 117 is the middle chapter of the Protestant Bible—and the shortest. Right in the middle of judgment and mercy, prophecy and gospel, wisdom and apocalypse, stands a tiny psalm reminding the world of God’s steadfast love for all peoples. Two verses. A tiny psalm. A massive invitation.
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Day 147: David and Hamilton (Psalm 127:1-2)
What do King David and Alexander Hamilton have in common? More than I realized. As I read the closing chapters of 1 Chronicles, I began to see David not merely as a warrior or poet, but as a nation builder creating systems and structures that would outlive him. And suddenly, I found myself thinking about…
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Day 145: Gonna Lay Down My Burdens (1 Chronicles 23:25-26)
1 Chronicles 23, David announces something remarkable: “The LORD… has given rest to his people.” The wandering years were over. The burdens could finally be laid down. Yet the Levites were not without purpose. The wearying work ended, but the work of worship continued. Maybe that is what heaven will be like—not the end of…
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Spiritual Directions (Acts 2:42-47)
Acts 2 gives us spiritual directions for the church: upward in worship, inward in community, outward in generosity, and forward with the gospel. The Spirit-empowered church is not organized around comfort and consumption, but around devotion to God, one another, the hurting, and the mission of Jesus Christ.
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Day 143: In God’s Hands (2 Samuel 24:14)
David had spent a lifetime at the mercy of human beings. He had faced Goliath, run from Saul, survived Absalom’s rebellion, and watched powerful men manipulate, betray, flatter, and murder for power. So when judgment came, David chose to fall into the hands of God instead of the hands of man. Why? Because even God’s…
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Day 140: The Body Keeps the Score (Psalm 38)
Long before modern psychiatrists gave it a clinical diagnosis, David understood how the body keeps score. In Psalm 38, he describes guilt in physical terms: aching bones, failing strength, throbbing heart. But while the body may keep score, grace doesn’t.
