DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries)
JUNE 16, 2026
READ: Isaiah 35: 8 &10
MEMORY VERSE
“A highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.” Isaiah 35:8
BACKGROUND
After Jennifer was diagnosed with early onset dementia, she couldn’t read the Bible easily, so she started listening to it. Scripture passages now mean something new to her. For example, she gets lost easily, often doesn’t know who people are, and sees hallucinations of wild animals.
When she’s disoriented and fearful, she receives God’s comfort as she hears Isaiah speak of “the Way of Holiness” set aside “for those who walk on that Way” (Isaiah 35:8). On that road will be no wicked fools, “nor any ravenous beast”; instead, “only the redeemed will walk there,” those whom God rescues (v. 9).
The prophet Isaiah shared God’s promises to His people, those exiled from their home. Away from the temple, where they would experience His presence, they must have felt bereft and forlorn.
The promises, therefore, of the Way of Holiness, the path to God, would give them hope and strength. To think of entering “Zion with singing,” without fear or sorrow, would lead them to rejoice (v. 10).
Even as Jennifer holds on to these assurances from centuries ago, so too can we who believe in Jesus trust that as we journey with Him, we’ll know gladness and joy (v. 10).
Whatever trials we face in this life—however taxing or life-altering—we know that God’s way leads us home to Him.
Amy Boucher Pye
INSIGHT
Isaiah prophesied that the Israelites would be disciplined and exiled to Babylon for their covenantal unfaithfulness (Isaiah 39:6-7; see Jeremiah 25:11).
He also prophesied that once the seventy-year chastisement was completed, God would bring them back to the promised land and restore and prosper their land (29:10-11).
Isaiah pictures them making their way back to Him on “the Highway of Holiness,” traversing “a great road . . . through that once deserted land . . . only for those who walk in God’s ways” (Isaiah 35:8 nlt).
In our journey of faith, God wants us to come to Him with our fears and struggles. The prophet says, “Let us go to the house of God. There he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his path” (2:3 nlt).
This road of repentance, redemption, trust, and obedience is the road He wants us to take: “This is the way; walk in it” (30:21).
K. T. Sim
APPLICATION
What do these promises from God mean to you? As you experience trials outside of your control, how can you turn to Him?
PR’s (Pastor Richard) RE-EMPHASIS (From Today’s Post)
“Whatever trials we face in this life—however taxing or life-altering—we know that God’s way leads us home to Him… This road of repentance, redemption, trust, and obedience is the road He wants us to take”
PR’s TAKE
“Order my steps in Thy word and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.” Psalm 119:133
PRAYER
“Saving God, please help me to release my fears to You as I walk on the Way of Holiness. I long to be with You.”
TODAY’S HYMN/WORSHIP/PRAISE/GOSPEL SONG
“STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD”
Standing on the promises of Christ, my King!
Through eternal ages let His praises ring.
“Glory in the highest!” I will shout and sing,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God, my Savior;
Standing, standing,
I’m standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises that cannot fail!
When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God, my Savior…
Standing on the promises, I now can see
Perfect, present cleansing in the blood for me;
Standing in the liberty where Christ makes free,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God, my Savior…
Standing on the promises of Christ, the Lord,
Bound to Him eternally by love’s strong cord,
Overcoming daily with the Spirit’s Sword,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God, my Savior…
Standing on the promises I cannot fall,
List’ning ev’ry moment to the Spirit’s call,
Resting in my Savior as my all in all,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God, my Savior;
Standing, standing,
I’m standing on the promises of God.
