Our Daily Bread Devotional Today 17th November 2022 Titled Onwards! Unswerving
Today’s Our Daily Bread devotional focuses on rest. The poet concludes that true rest and joy are both found through love and service—an idea that brings to mind Paul’s encouragement to the Thessalonians.
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[We encouraged] . . . you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. – 1 Thessalonians 2:12
Today’s Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 3:11–13; 4:9–12
MESSAGE>>>> Our Daily Bread Devotional Today 17th November 2022 titled Onwards! Unswerving
In the poem “Rest,” the poet gently challenges our tendency to separate “leisure” time from “work,” asking, “Is not true leisure / One with true toil?” If you want to experience true leisure, instead of trying to avoid life’s duties, the author urges, “Still do thy best; Use it, not waste it,— / Else ’tis not rest. / Wouldst behold beauty / Near thee? all round? / Only hath duty / Such a sight found.”
The poet concludes that true rest and joy are both found through love and service—an idea that brings to mind Paul’s encouragement to the Thessalonians. After describing his calling to encourage believers “to live lives worthy of God” (1 Thessalonians 2:12), the apostle gives more specifics.
And the picture he paints of such a life is one of quiet integrity, love, and service. Paul prays that God would “make [their] love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else” (3:12). And he urges believers in Jesus to “make it your ambition to lead a quiet life,” to “mind your own business and work with your hands” (4:11). It’s that kind of life, quietly loving and serving in whatever ways God has enabled us, that reveals to others the beauty of a life of faith (v. 12).
Or, as the writer puts it, true joy is “loving and serving / The highest and best; / ’Tis onwards! Unswerving— / And that is true rest.” By: Monica La Rose
Our Daily Bread Devotional Today 17th November 2022 || Reflect & Pray
REFLECT>>>> How does God’s presence help you experience true joy? How are rest and service united in God’s kingdom?
PRAY>>>> Loving God, thank You that I don’t need to avoid the duties and rhythms of daily life to experience Your beauty. Help me to know the joy of a quiet life lived with You.
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