A lot of words have been spoken, written, recorded, tweeted, retweeted, posted, shared or deleted of late. God's Word—that eternal Word that stands in heaven—was what prompted the question we asked last week: What's one particular Scripture that has hit home for you during this crazy time?

Be encouraged as you read today's musing.

What a great question! I am thankful that the Lord's mercies are new every morning, just for today. Tomorrow the Lord will give me new mercies according to that day. (Lamentations 3:22-23)
Karen Bagge

Memorizing Psalm 19. On January 5, Pastor Ben Panner shared that Psalm 19 is two books, verses 1-9 focus on God's glory in creation, and verses 7-11 on truths of God's Word. The prayer of verses 12-14 gives legs to my daily walk with Jesus these days. Amazing grace and love.
Mary Miller

Good time to revisit my very first favorite verse the night I came into God's family: Hebrews 5:13b (Amplified Bible): "for he, himself has said, 'I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless nor relax my hold you.'" Currently, the passage I'm looking to is 1 King 8:41-43. Believers need to repent and turn back to God so that the foreigners in our midst can see God and turn to him.
Linda Murphy

The message of Amos. Thinking about what J.A. Motyer says about Amos 5:14-15: "This is no 'fugitive and cloistered virtue' interior to the heart or wrought out solely in a one-to-one relationship between the individual and God. Its outflow is in terms of a society founded and run on principles of justice backed by sanctions for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of them that do well. . . What a call this constitutes to Bible Christians to rediscover the moral and social teaching of Holy Scripture! How often our contributions on social and socio-ethical questions are small, insignificant, inhibited because we simply have not laboured to acquire biblical definitions of the issues involved! If we do not labour to 'establish justice in the gate', we shall be accused from this passage in Amos of a one-sided morality stopping short of the biblical concern for society, we shall be exposed, according to Amos 3:9-4:5, of playing around with a useless religion while society rots, and we shall find, according to Amos 6:3, that, while we have been unconcerned, other and sinister forces have been at work to enthrone violence and disorder."
Praying that we, the church, would repent for our sins of omission and its effect on the black community and persons of color. How do we commit sins of omission by not actively hating evil, loving good and establishing justice in the courts? “A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” (John Stuart Mill
Karen Selking

Romans 12:12 (NIV) has been a good reminder for each day: "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."
John Maust

Proverbs 4:18 (NKJV): "The path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day." What a beautiful promise for an 84-year-old who knows the Lord. No matter what, my life will just get better and better!
Joan Hutcheson

Isaiah 41:10 (NLT): "Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand." I actually chose this verse in late December 2019 to be one of my memory verses for 2020. It has been a daily encouragement to me.
Debbie VanDerMolen

John 14:6: Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." When I do not see a direction I can go physically, (being on a medication that leaves my immune system compromised,) I do see Jesus and move toward him. Currently I am in a study of the life of Christ to point me to see him, and see how as his follower I can do as he does in relationship with others.
Carole Ehrman

Psalm 33 was part of my daily reading on March 14, and in the 12 weeks that have followed, it has continually reminded me that none of this is a surprise to God, that God is a faithful promise keeper, and that it is only when our hearts trust and hope in him that we are made glad.
Kate Schlickman

1 Peter 5:7 (NIV): “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” My favorite way to remind myself of this is through the song, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." It expresses 1 Peter 5:7 so well.
Sarah Lindquist

2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 (NIV) But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." This passage is a wonderful reminder to me that God meets us in our weakness, and this is certainly a time of weakness! His grace is sufficient. Always. His amazing power is made perfect in weakness. Let us not run from weakness, but rest in him.
Mary Manteuffel

Psalm 29:10 (NASB): "The Lord sat as King at the flood. Yes, the Lord sits as King forever."
Ruth Feldmann

Settled truths for our souls.