OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
Our Daily Bread for today, 23rd October 2025,is here. Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11).
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The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 23rd October 2025 is “Sharpened by Iron”
Bible in a Year: Jeremiah 1:1-2:37, 1 Timothy 3:1-16
Memory Verse: As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17
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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
Louise, a project manager, regretted taking on the freelance job. Both the client and designer were testing her patience. Why is it so difficult? she wondered. Why can’t these people get it together?
Weeks later, as she read Proverbs 27, verse 17 stood out—“iron sharpens iron.” “You can’t file down rough edges with something soft, like silk,” she told her small group soon after. “You need something hard, like iron.”
Louise realized that the challenges in the project were smoothing down some rough edges of her own. She was learning to be more patient and humble, and to adapt to different working styles. God, she concluded, was using the project to expose her flaws and teach her new lessons about working with others.
Much of the book of Proverbs extols the value of godly wisdom, but this wisdom doesn’t come easily. It needs to be sought after with obedience and discernment (3:13; 13:20; 19:20), and refined in crucibles and furnaces, with mortars and pestles (27:21-22)—situations that may mean temporary pain and suffering.
Yet the Bible reminds us that challenges come with rewards: In seeking God’s wisdom diligently and obeying His ways, we’ll find true security, satisfaction, and blessing (vv. 26-27).
Reflect & Pray
What lessons can you learn from difficult situations you’re facing? How might God be refining and shaping you to be more like His Son, Jesus?
Loving Father, please grant me strength to endure my trials and a humble heart to learn from life’s challenges. Thank You for shaping and molding me each day.
Our Daily Bread 2025 Devotional is written by Leslie Koh and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
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