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January 20, 2026 — The Unanswered Question
Job’s unanswered questions lead him to one unquestioned answer: The Lord knows, and that’s enough. You’ve doubtless heard people say that the theme of the Book of Job is “the mystery of suffering.” Well, if it’s a mystery at the beginning, wrenching a “Why?” from Job’s lips, it’s still a mystery to him at the…
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January 20
CHRIST the COMING ONE: “For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry” (Heb 10:37). F.E. Marsh writes: There is a pathos-filled incident in the life of Hugh Miller. He tells how, after his father had left home on his ship, he used to go and watch for…
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January 20 Petition Mission
“Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.…Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you…” (Ps 55:17, 22). The Lord doesn’t just sustain your burden when cast on Him; He sustains you! Adrian Rogers writes: “The greatest problem we face is not…
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January 20
Sir Moses Montefiore was the most famous Jew in the 19th Century. Linked by marriage and business to the Rothschilds, he was knighted by Queen Victoria and renowned for his philanthropy. He had an aunt Lydia in Marseille who was a determined Jewess. One day she received a visit from J.P. Cohen, a Jewish believer.…
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January 19, 2026 — Love Living? Live Loving!
“Relying on God” wrote C.S. Lewis, is “to start all over every day, as if nothing has yet been done.” Have you heard of an antimetabole? No, it’s not an ancient sea creature or a newly-discovered subatomic particle. It’s “a rhetorical technique of reversing word order in successive clauses.” Here’s a famous one. “It’s not the…
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January 19
“CHRIST is ALL” (Col 3:11). Christ is all in creation and in control: “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things,…