Our Daily Bread Devotional Today 14th November 2022 Titled The Love of God
Today’s OUR DAILY BREAD devotional dwells on love. A prisoner had scratched it there into the stone, expressing a deep awareness of God’s love.
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Great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. – Psalm 57:10
Today’s Scripture: Psalm 57
MESSAGE>>>> Our Daily Bread Devotional Today 14th November 2022 titled The Love of God
In 1917, Frederick Lehman, a California businessman beset by financial setbacks, wrote the lyrics to the hymn, “The Love of God.” His inspiration led him quickly to pen the first two stanzas, but he got stuck on the third. He recalled a poem that had been discovered years earlier, written on the walls of a prison. A prisoner had scratched it there into the stone, expressing a deep awareness of God’s love. The poem happened to be in the same meter as Lehman’s hymn. He made it his third stanza.
There are times when we face difficult setbacks as did Lehman and the poet in the prison cell. In times of despair, we do well to echo the psalmist David’s words and “take refuge in the shadow of [God’s] wings” (Psalm 57:1). It’s okay to “cry out to God” with our troubles (v. 2), to speak to Him of our current ordeal and the fears we have when “in the midst of lions” (v. 4). We’re soon reminded of the reality of God’s provision in times past, and join David who says, “I will sing and make music. . . . I will awaken the dawn” (vv. 7–8).
“The love of God is greater far,” this hymn proclaims, adding “it goes beyond the highest star.” It’s precisely in our time of greatest need when we’re to embrace how great God’s love really is—indeed “reaching to the heavens” (v. 10). By: Kenneth Petersen
Our Daily Bread Devotional Today 14th November 2022 Titled The Love of God || Reflect & Pray
REFLECT>>> What are the difficulties you face today? How has God provided for you in times past?
PRAY>>> Loving God, I am facing difficult matters, but I am reminded of Your love for me and Your provision throughout my life. Thank You.
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