February 23rd, 26:Numbers 12-13; Psalm 90; Mark 2; Daily Bible in a Year

Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible podcast! On this episode for February 23rd, 2026, join Hunter and Heather as they guide us through day 54 of their journey in the Bible. Today’s readings include Numbers 12 and 13, Psalm 90, and Mark chapter 2, highlighting moments of faith, humility, and God’s unwavering presence. Together, they reflect on how God’s grace transforms our lives—reminding us that forgiveness, belonging, and love are gifts freely given through Christ. The episode wraps up with heartfelt prayers, the Lord’s Prayer, and a special anniversary celebration between Hunter and Heather, marking 35 years of faithfully walking together. Tune in for encouragement, spiritual insight, and a reminder that—no matter where you are in your journey—you are truly loved.

TODAY'S DEVOTION:

They had questions in their hearts that stood in the way of them receiving healing and forgiveness. Sometimes our questions are more of an accusation or an indictment than they are real questions. The teachers of religious law saw Jesus extend compassion to this paralytic. They stood there and watched Jesus respond to these four men who had come in faith bringing their friend in need. They watched these men do outrageous things like digging through a roof and lowering their friend right smack dab in front of Jesus. These friends had interrupted all that was going on so that they could get an audience with Jesus. The teachers observed all this take place, and they saw Jesus respond not just with compassion and healing but with forgiveness of sins. And they objected. They accused him. They indicted him. "What is he saying? He’s blaspheming. Only God can forgive sins," they said.

What was in these religious teachers' hearts was disbelief that God could really make good on his promise in scripture to send his son to heal and restore the world. They were insisting on their own way, a way like all religion that had learned how to leverage sin, to leverage despair, to leverage the frailty of people for their own advantage. But Jesus, he offers us a new way. Not the old wineskin—no, this is new wine. Not the old garment, but something absolutely new. Not us fulfilling the law, not us being faithful, not us being holy. It’s not us at all. Rather, it’s all God.

God has put it all on himself. God is fulfilling the law. God is being faithful. God is being holy. The new way is not to look at our own efforts and our own piety. The new way is simply to look to the One, to Jesus, who has come to fulfill all that was needed for a human race that is paralyzed, unable to stand upright and walk. The Gospel is what God has done. It is already finished. It is not a transactional proposition. It is not, "If you do this, God will do that." It's not quid pro quo. No, the Gospel is all God. What he has already accomplished for the world on the cross. Ours is to awaken to the new reality, the new wine that is right here, right now.

It is a declaration of what already is. It's the good news. You already are forgiven. You already belong to him even before you knew it. Today, let us place our hearts before the God who alone has already done all that is needed. Today, let us hear his words spoken to the paralytic: "Your sins are forgiven." That's for you. Now get up, take your mat, and walk.

That's the prayer that I have for my own soul. That's the prayer that I have for my family, for my wife and my daughters and my son. And that's a prayer that I have for you. May it be so.