February 29
(Psalm 18:29 ESV) “For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.”
(Malachi 4:2 BSB) “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.”
(Isaiah 35:6 NIV) “Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.”
(Luke 6:22-23 NIV) “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man. {23} Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.”
On this “Leap Day” when our calendar works to catch up with God’s creation timing, let’s think about leaping in Scripture. Psalm 18 testifies that with God’s help we need not fear our enemy’s strength, for we have the strength of God in us. And with His strength, we can face down an army or leap over a wall if need be. Malachi and Isaiah remind us that as believers, we carry the joy of the God’s Spirit within us -- a joy that leaps like a calf set free from a stall on a summer day, and even over fences like the bounding deer. This kind of Holy Spirit joy can power us through the valleys of life. And our Lord and Savior, Jesus, teaches us that we can even leap for joy in times of persecution, just as the prophets and so many of the righteous have done throughout the ages. For when we are hated, excluded, and insulted because of His name, great is our reward in heaven. So, Happy Leap Day, Christian! – Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day
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