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06/11/2026

DAILY SCRIPTURE 6/11/26 THURSDAY Matthew 11:1-6. After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in the towns of Galilee.[a]
2 When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples 3 to ask him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”
4 Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: 5 The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy[b] are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. 6 Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”

John the Baptist was one of the first witnesses to proclaim Jesus as Savior and King. So why does he ask for reassurance here? Possibly because he has just been put in prison. You can imagine his wondering, “If Jesus is real, why would he allow this to happen to me? You would think that he would be protective of his loyal followers. Now I'm locked up and I can't even do the job I was sent to do! It seems that God would have a better plan for me.” If so, he is not alone – many, many people have had those kind of doubts. But the fact is, Jesus never promised that his followers would be free from trouble – he actually promised the opposite (cf. John 16:33). But he also promised that he would never leave them, and that ultimately God's love will triumph!

06/10/2026

DAILY SCRIPTURE 6/10/26 WEDNESDAY Isaiah 55:8-11. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Some people reject God because he appears to be responsible for so many troubling things. We doubt because we do not understand. But if God does exist (and he does), wouldn't you expect such a Being to be beyond our understanding? Here we are assured that even though life can seem random and meaningless, God is still in charge and God still has a plan. And we can be sure that his will will be accomplished – even if we're not sure what it is!

06/09/2026

DAILY SCRIPTURE 6/9/26 TUESDAY Luke 2:48-52. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”
49 “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”[a] 50 But they did not understand what he was saying to them.
51 Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Sooner or later we all feel like Mary, and want to ask Jesus, “Why have you treated us like this?” Jesus often does not act in ways that we expect. (Mary did not expect her polite, dutiful son to behave this way.) Jesus answers her by establishing his true identity – he is actually God's son, and that is his first allegiance. And yet, he still willingly goes back with them to Nazareth. Jesus always leaves his place of power and position to come and humbly dwell with us. He will not answer all our questions, but he will not let us face them alone.

06/08/2026

DAILY SCRIPTURE 6/8/26 MONDAY Luke 2:41-47. Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. 44 Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.

This is the only story we have about Jesus as a child, and here we find him in the Temple, asking and answering questions. Everyone expects Jesus to give us answers (and he does), but very often what Jesus gives us is questions. In the gospels Jesus asks more than 300 questions! In the next part of this passage Jesus will speak for the first time chronologically, and it will be a question. Questions can be more powerful than answers, because they force us to look at ourselves and to think. Sometimes Jesus chooses not to spoon feed us the truth, but to let us wrestle with it and discover it ourselves

06/04/2026

DAILY SCRIPTURE 6/4/26 THURSDAY John 1:35-50. The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. 38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?”
They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39 “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.”
So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.
40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. 41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). 42 And he brought him to Jesus.
Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter[c]).
43 The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.”
44 Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
46 “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked.
“Come and see,” said Philip.
47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”
48 “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.
Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
49 Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.”
50 Jesus said, “You believe[d] because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.”

Jesus asks his new disciples, “What do you want?” (Or in some translations, ”What are you looking for?) These men we living pretty stable, middle class lives, plus they already had an amazing religious leader, John the Baptist. But somehow they realized that something was still missing, and that Jesus could give it to them. What do you think that was? If somehow Jesus disappeared from your life, what would you miss the most?

06/03/2026

DAILY SCRIPTURE 6/3/26 WEDNESDAY Isaiah 7:10-17. I Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 11 “Ask the Lord your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the Lord to the test.”
13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you[a] a sign: The virgin[b] will conceive and give birth to a son, and[c] will call him Immanuel.[d] 15 He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, 16 for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste. 17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.”

srael was terrified of a huge army about to attack, but God tells King Ahaz that the attack won't happen, and even offers to give him any kind of sign he asks. Ahaz, like many people, thinks he is being pious by not asking God for what he really wants. He thinks he is being respectful, but actually he is afraid God won't grant it. God wants us to share our deepest desires with him, even if we feel weird about it. God sees it as a sign of our trust.

06/02/2026

DAILY SCRIPTURE 6/2/26 TUESDAY Matthew 20:20-28. Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.
21 “What is it you want?” he asked.
She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”
22 “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?”
“We can,” they answered.
23 Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.”
24 When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. 25 Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 26 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

This story immediately precedes yesterday's scripture, and in it Jesus asks a very similar question to the mother of James and John: “what do you want?” She asks for personal glory for her sons. She doesn't understand how amazing Jesus' Kingdom will be, and how contrary it will be to the values of this world. The Kingdom will be triumph and joy – it won't matter to anyone where they are sitting! Personal glory will no longer be a motivation! Our worldly desires and ambitions are small and pathetic compared to what Jesus really offers us. We typically don't ask Jesus for too much, we ask for too little!

06/01/2026

DAILY SCRIPTURE 6/1/26 MONDAY Matthew 20:29-34. As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him. 30 Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
31 The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
32 Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked.
33 “Lord,” they answered, “we want our sight.”
34 Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.

Jesus asks a seemingly strange question: “what do you want me to do for you?” Since he's asking to blind men, the answer seems obvious! But it is not – we all have needs and longings that are deep below the surface. We may even hide them intentionally. Jesus actually takes the time and the interest to ask these men what is really on their minds. He cares about all our desires. If Jesus asked you that question point blank, what do you think you would say?

05/31/2026

Questions from Jesus: What Do You Want?

05/29/2026

DAILY SCRIPTURE 5/29/26 FRIDAY John 16:12-15. “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

Matthew 28:18-20. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Even the greatest minds cannot grasp the Trinity, which says that God is three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), but also just one. The three persons of God are close in a way that goes beyond the closest human relationships. God invites us to become a part of that community!

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