08/25/2026
Finding Your Divine Mentors:
I frequently ask people, “What passages in the Bible saved your life?”
Not just the passages you know.
Not just the passages you can quote. What passages did God use to speak directly to you?
These are the passages that become personal. They become foundations of our faith and steppingstones into a deeper, one-on-one relationship with God.
While I was in prison, God spoke to me through David in Psalm 118. Over the years, David has become one of the greatest mentors in my life, not because I ever met him, but because God used his story, his struggles, his failures, and his faith to speak into my own life.
“I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the Lord has done. The Lord has chastened me severely, but he has not given me over to death. Open for me the gates of the righteous; I will enter and give thanks to the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous may enter. I will give you thanks, for you answered me; you have become my salvation.”
Psalm 118:17–21 NIV
David became a mentor to me because God used his words to speak into my wounds, his struggles to speak into my struggles, and his faith to call me toward a deeper trust in God.
So let me ask you: Who is your divine mentor?
What person in Scripture has God used to speak to your life?
And perhaps more importantly: What passage has God used to keep you alive when you felt like giving up?
Sometimes God’s greatest mentors are people we have never met, and sometimes the words that save us are words we have read a hundred times before, but suddenly God makes them personal.
Keep Walking Together with Christ.
