OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
Our Daily Bread for today 23rd May 2026 is here. Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11).
The word of God is food to the spirit man. “Eat and digest” the word of the Lord for today and let its unchanging power nurture your faith and help in your daily walk to Christ.
The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 23rd May 2026 is “Freedom in Christ”
Bible in a Year: 1 Chronicles 19-21, John 8:1-27
Memory Verse: 2 Corinthians 3:17
The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
In 1849, Henry “Box” Brown (a US enslaved man from Virginia) folded himself into a wooden crate marked “dry goods,” and two friends shipped him from Richmond to Philadelphia. Brown was inside the box (3 x 2.5 x 2 feet) for the 26-hour trip, with three small holes cut for air. As abolitionists pulled Brown from the box, he sang a paraphrase of Psalm 40, expressing his hope in the God who promises freedom. “If you have never been deprived of your liberty, as I was,” Brown later wrote, “you cannot realize the power of that hope of freedom, which was to me indeed, an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast.”
Freedom is central to how God operates in our hearts and in our world. His wisdom leads to spiritual freedom, but false wisdom leads to oppression. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is,” Paul says, “there is freedom” from sin, death, and condemnation (2 Corinthians 3:17). When we listen to God and follow His ways, freedom results. Unfortunately the opposite is also true: When we ignore Him and resist His invitations, we become ensnared and confined. God liberates and transforms us by His Spirit (v. 18), but sin and rebellion traps us.
We sometimes believe that God limits and obstructs our possibilities and pleasure. But in truth, He’s the only one who can lead us into an expansive future, the only one who can guide us into genuine freedom.
Reflect & Pray
Where have you felt trapped in life? How do you sense God’s desire to guide you into freedom?
Dear God, please help me to be transformed and free in You.
Our Daily Bread 2026 Devotional is written by Winn Collier and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
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