OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
Our Daily Bread for today 31st August 2025 is here. Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11).
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The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 31st August 2025 is “Jesus Reaches for You”
Bible in a Year: Psalms 132-134; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Memory Verse: Mark 1:40-45
Jesus . . . reached out his hand and touched the man. Mark 1:41
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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
Letty, a cleaner in an office building, was known for walking fast—really fast. In doing so, she could easily avoid people. Wounded by poverty and accustomed to condescension, she passed others with one hand reflexively covering part of her face. Her shame, in her words, over not being “like normal, beautiful, educated people”, was profoundly deep. When a woman at work extended her friendship, Letty began to heal.
A man with leprosy lived with a shame perhaps deeper than Letty’s. His disease rendered him revolting and ceremonially unclean by standards of the Mosaic law, separating him from mainstream society.
The man’s wounds weren’t just physical; they were also lesions of the soul and spirit. With this woundedness, the leper approached Christ, begging, “If you are willing, you can make me clean” (Mark 1:40). Heal me, he was saying, but also remove my shame.
Jesus responded not with repulsion but with compassion. “I am willing,” He said, “Be clean!” as He reached out and touched the man (v. 41). Just like the friendship extended to Letty by a co-worker, Jesus’ amazing action was one of understanding all that the man had suffered and of acceptance despite it all.
We may walk through life hiding what we feel separates us from “normal, beautiful, educated people”. May we allow Jesus to touch and redeem these things that cause us shame. May we know that as God’s children, we’re accepted and loved.
Reflect & Pray: What makes you feel shame? How can you entrust this to Christ’s redeeming love?
Dear Jesus, thank You for reaching out to me.
Our Daily Bread 2025 Devotional is written by Karen Huang and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
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