When you don’t know
what to say.
Someone is grieving, scared, sick, waiting, or just having a hard night. Maybe that someone is you. Start with what’s happening and find Scripture that comforts.
Sometimes people need space. Sometimes a meal, a ride, or someone willing to sit with them. And sometimes Scripture helps.
Or start with a common moment
- Grief
- Sympathy card
- Before surgery
- Waiting on results
- Job loss
- Worry
- Can’t sleep
- Starting over
- Retirement card
- Graduation card
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A verse can sound perfect by itself and mean something quite different in its chapter. Every verse here comes with who said it, what was happening, and why it might fit, and on most pages the popular verse I’d leave out and why. I read the whole chapter before recommending a verse, and I’ll show you how to check one yourself in two minutes.
How to read a verse before you send it · What I believeToday’s verse
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
World English Bible (WEB)
The psalm has spent twenty-two verses on how completely God knows and sees the writer: his thoughts, his words before he says them, the womb he was formed in. A person could find that terrifying. Instead, the psalm ends with an invitation: search me. Knowing you’re already fully seen, the writer decides, is a reason to stop hiding rather than to hide harder.