OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
Our Daily Bread for today, 2nd December 2025, is here. Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11).
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The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 2nd December 2025 is “Positive Graffiti”
Bible in a Year: Ezekiel 42-44, 1 John 1
Memory Verse: Proverbs 15:4
The soothing tongue is a tree of life.
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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
As a young man, journalist Sebastian Junger traveled the United States and wrote about it.
One day in the 1980s, he entered a restroom in the Florida Keys and found hateful graffiti scrawled on the walls.
Most of it targeted Cuban immigrants. But one message, apparently from a Cuban, stood out. It read, “Thank God the rest of the people in this country are warm and caring and welcomed me in ’62.” Junger observed, “The very worst things about America were on that men’s-room wall, and the very best.”
How are we to respond to the poisonous messages we so often encounter? The book of Proverbs offers sound counsel. Solomon, who compiled most of the book, brackets chapter 15 with similar imagery: “the mouth of the fool gushes folly” (v. 2), and “the mouth of the wicked gushes evil” (v. 28).
The chapter begins, however, with the antidote to such venom: “A gentle answer turns away wrath” (v. 1). Solomon also noted, “The soothing tongue is a tree of life” (v. 4). Always, a patient response is key: “The heart of the righteous weighs its answers” (v. 28).
How might God use our words when we ask Him to help us weigh them before our mouths, our pens, or our keyboards spew venom and vitriol at our fellow humans? As the proverb says, “How good is a timely word!” (v. 23).
Reflect & Pray
What’s your reaction when you see or hear hateful speech? How might you respond differently the next time you encounter hate?
Dear Father, how prone I am to answer quickly and in anger. Please guide me by Your Spirit and help me weigh my responses wisely.
Our Daily Bread 2025 Devotional is written by Tim Gustafson and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
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