Come Follow Me Meditations

Rest tonight inside the psalm for anyone who has wondered if they are truly seen — a Come Follow Me sleep meditation for August 31–September 6, "Let Every Thing That Hath Breath Praise the Lord" (Psalms 102–103; 110; 116–119; 127–128; 135–139; 146–150, Psalm 139).

This week we rest in the closing songs of the book of Psalms. Under the night sky, the psalmist of Psalm 139 discovers he is ful...

He is standing directly on top of the one machine that can save everyone — and there is no door. Chapter 32 of The Ark Conspiracy, a Come Follow Me faith-fiction series for August 24–30, "I Will Declare What He Hath Done for My Soul" (Psalms 49–51; 61–66; 69–72; 77–78; 85–86).

THE STORY SO FAR: Noah Reyes crossed a continent with his two best friends to reach a research station buried in th...

A gentle bedtime story about a king who made a wrong choice, and the quiet prayer that made him new. A Come Follow Me bedtime story for August 24–30, "I Will Declare What He Hath Done for My Soul" (Psalms 49–51; 61–66; 69–72; 77–78; 85–86, David).

Long ago, in a palace late at night, a king named David sat alone with one small oil lamp burning. He had once been a shepherd boy who made up songs ab...

Start today by remembering one rescue you never explained to anyone. A Come Follow Me morning meditation for August 24–30, "I Will Declare What He Hath Done for My Soul" (Psalms 49–51; 61–66; 69–72; 77–78; 85–86).

This week's psalms are songs of testimony. In Psalm 66 a man stops an ordinary morning to say "Come and hear, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul" — not what God did ...

Rest tonight in a psalm written by someone who could not sleep either. A Come Follow Me sleep meditation for August 24–30, "I Will Declare What He Hath Done for My Soul" (Psalms 49–51; 61–66; 69–72; 77–78; 85–86, Asaph and David).

Psalm 77 is a night song. Asaph lies awake with his hand stretched out in the dark, his soul refusing to be comforted, too troubled to speak — and he asks the que...

Some nights, being cared for doesn't look like rescue — it looks like someone quietly paying a price so you can keep walking. A Come Follow Me faith-fiction chapter for Aug 17–23, "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (Psalms 1–2; 8; 19–33; 40; 46).

THE STORY SO FAR: Seventeen-year-old Noah Reyes has crossed a drowned continent to reach his grandfather's hidden vault before the Crest Corporation can — guided only ...

A gentle Psalm 23 bedtime story for children about Jesus, the Good Shepherd who knows every lamb by name. Let your child fall asleep feeling safe, loved, and personally known by Him.

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

Before David became a king, he was a shepherd. In this peaceful Bible bedtime story, children will journey through the comforting promises of Psalm 23: green pastures, still waters, good paths, t...

Begin today knowing the God who set the stars in place is mindful of you. A Come Follow Me morning meditation for August 17–23, "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (Psalms 1–2; 8; 19–33; 40; 46).

This week the Psalms turn our eyes upward. The psalmist sits on a hillside long before sunrise, looks at the moon and the stars God set in place, and asks the oldest question of the human heart — what is man, that God would b...

Rest tonight in the quiet river running underneath everything that feels loud. A Come Follow Me sleep meditation for August 17–23, “The Lord Is My Shepherd” (Psalms 1–2; 8; 19–33; 40; 46).

The Psalms were written by people who could not sleep either — people who were afraid, and waiting, and honest with God about both. Tonight we sit with three of them. The psalmist of Psalm 40 describes a pit an...

The vault is sealed, the race is lost, and nobody will tell Noah whose fault it is — The Ark Conspiracy Ch. 30, a Come Follow Me story for August 10–16, "Yet Will I Trust in Him" (Job).

THE STORY SO FAR: Seventeen-year-old Noah Reyes has crossed a drowned continent to reach his grandfather's hidden vault before the corporation that took his mother. He got through the door — but he wasn't the only one who did.

This...

A gentle bedtime story about a good man named Job, a very long night, and the God who never once walked away. A Come Follow Me bedtime story for August 10–16, "Yet Will I Trust in Him" (Job 1–3; 12–14; 19; 21–24; 38–40; 42).

Tonight we visit a warm house on a hillside, a lamp glowing in the doorway, and sheep settling into the grass. Job was kind, and honest, and he prayed for his family every morning ...

Begin the day with the God who answered a suffering man not with an explanation, but with a sky full of morning stars. A Come Follow Me morning meditation for August 10–16, "Yet Will I Trust in Him" (Job 1–3; 12–14; 19; 21–24; 38–40; 42).

This week we walk with Job — a good man who lost nearly everything and never lost his grip on God. We sit with him in the ashes as he says, "Blessed be the name...

Rest tonight in the promise a suffering man wanted carved into rock so it would outlast him — I know that my Redeemer liveth. A Come Follow Me sleep meditation for August 10–16, "Yet Will I Trust in Him" (Job 1–3; 12–14; 19; 21–24; 38–40; 42).

This week we sit with Job in the land of Uz, in the evening, after nearly everything he had was gone. He was upright. He was faithful. And the hard things ...

They crossed a continent to reach one door — and someone got there first. The Ark Conspiracy Ch. 29, Come Follow Me faith-fiction for August 3–9: "Thou Art Come . . . For Such a Time as This" (Esther).

THE STORY SO FAR: Seventeen-year-old Noah Reyes found three drives hidden in his own basement — his grandfather's life's work — and the people who took his mother want them back. He's been running north ever s...

A gentle bedtime story about a girl who was loved, and cared for, and never left by herself. A Come Follow Me bedtime story for August 3–9, “Thou Art Come . . . For Such a Time as This” (Esther, with Esther and Mordecai).

Tonight we visit a quiet city called Shushan, with little houses and flat roofs and lamps being lit in the windows. In one of those houses lives a girl named Hadassah — her name means myrtl...

Begin today knowing the room you are standing in is not an accident. A Come Follow Me morning meditation for August 3–9, "Thou Art Come . . . For Such a Time as This" (Esther, with Esther and Mordecai).

This week we walk into a Persian palace in the city of Shushan, far from Jerusalem, where an orphaned Jewish girl named Esther has become queen of an empire that does not know who she is. Her cousin Mordecai — the man wh...

Rest tonight in the quietest kind of miracle — a good deed written down and forgotten by everyone but God. A Come Follow Me sleep meditation for August 3–9, "Thou Art Come . . . For Such a Time as This" (Esther, with Mordecai at the king's gate).

This week we sit with Mordecai, an ordinary man at an ordinary city gate in Shushan, who overhears a plot against a king who is not his friend, in a kingdom that is not his hom...

The instruments are dead, the sky is sealed, and one plain star is the only thing out there not moving. The Ark Conspiracy Chapter 28 — a Come Follow Me faith-fiction chapter for July 27–August 2, "I Am Doing a Great Work" (Ezra 1; 3–7; Nehemiah 2; 4–6; 8).

THE STORY SO FAR: Seventeen-year-old Noah Reyes is crossing the far north with three people he trusts and an old pocket watch his grandfather left him, r...

A gentle bedtime story about the happiest morning in Jerusalem — the day a whole city gathered just to hear God’s words, and found that the joy of the Lord was their strength. A Come Follow Me bedtime story for July 27–August 2, “I Am Doing a Great Work” (Nehemiah 8, Ezra).

Tonight’s “Come Follow Me” story comes from the book of Nehemiah. The people had come home at last, their broken...