Mid-week Devotional:
Week of October 13, 2025
Mid-week Devotional week of October 13, 2025
It is foggy here this morning in Minnesota. Normally I can see the gravel road my brother lives on 2 miles away to the east of where we are staying. I know what the fog is hiding from my vision because I have traveled that way hundreds of times. The fog hides the presence of the county dump, 60 acres of pasture where 25 cows and their calves graze, a 100-acre grassland, and a gravel pit surrounded by mounds of sand and gravel.
The presence of the fog that hides what is actually there brings to mind the times while I was growing up that I thought if I pretended to have done what my parents asked me to do, they would never find out. I remember thinking everything was fine until my mother checked if I really had done what she had asked me to do. I wasn’t very old when I came to the realization that my parents watched out for me and that they followed up on my response to their directions.
Scripture for this week’s Mid-week Devotional from the Old Testament book of Proverbs reminds each of us that God knows everything we do and say along with everything we do not say and do as God’s creation.
Hear the Word of God as written in Proverbs 15:3.
“3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.”
This is God’s word for God’s people. Thanks be to God. AMEN.
There may have been times in your life when you didn’t follow God’s directions, God’s commandments on how you were to live your life of faith. Scripture reminds us over and over that God knows all and God sees all. The “fog” within our busy daily lives does not prevent God from “keeping watch” (v. 3).
Today and in the days ahead:
may you and I be ever mindful that God is always present.
may you and I respond to God’s directions with the words, “yes Lord.”
may you and I share God’s loving presence with all those we meet through all our words and actions.
Peace be with you.
AMEN.