OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
Our Daily Bread for today 2nd February 2026 is here. Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11).
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The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 2nd February 2026 is “Following Jesus in Humility”
Bible in a Year: Exodus 29:1-30:38, Matthew 21:23-46
Memory Verse: Matthew 18:3
Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
Near our home is a famous garden where we often take walks with a young boy our family cares for. His favorite area is the Children’s Garden, which has a small door large enough for him to run through but small enough to force me to crouch. He laughs as I drop to my knees and wiggle through the small opening to chase him.
The small garden gate reminds me of Jesus’ object lesson in Matthew 18, where He calls a little child to His side to explain the type of person who will enter the kingdom of heaven (v. 2). It was a bold example, for in Christ’s day to be a child was to be inconsequential and overlooked.
Unlike today, their opinions and desires didn’t matter. Jesus uses this description to highlight our human tendency to be noticed and seek power and influence.
Of course, Jesus wasn’t asking His disciples to become children again but rather pointing to the traits that mark those who serve him. The biggest marker is humility—the person who “takes the lowly position” (v. 4) and serves others.
The small garden door is a reminder that humility doesn’t come naturally to us. Believers in Jesus, however, are to be this way. We’re to follow our Savior, who modeled this way of living by making “himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant” (Philippians 2:7).
Reflect & Pray
In what areas of your life do you thrust yourself to the forefront and seek to be noticed? How can you learn to live more like Jesus?
Dear Father, please forgive me for my pride and self-interest. Help me to be a little child who runs to You.
Our Daily Bread 2026 Devotional is written by Matt Lucas and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
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