OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
Our Daily Bread for today, 8th 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 8th December 2025 is “Hospitable Generosity”
Bible in a Year: Daniel 8-10, 3 John
Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 24:19
When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.
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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
A few years ago, our church hosted refugees fleeing their country because of a change in their political leadership. Entire families came with only what they could fit in a small bag. Several of our church families opened their homes, some with little room to spare.
Such gracious hospitality echoes God’s command to the Israelites before they inhabited the promised land. As an agricultural society, they understood the importance of the harvest.
Every bit of food would be essential to get them through until next year’s harvest. God told the Israelites when harvesting not to go back to retrieve what they may have missed.
“Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow” (Deuteronomy 24:19). They were to practice generosity not by giving when they knew they had enough but by giving out of a heart of trusting in God’s provision “so that the Lord [their] God may bless [them] in all the work of their hands” (v. 19). God always has enough.
The practice of hospitality also reminded them that they had been “slaves in Egypt” (v. 22). While we may not have experienced such oppression, we’ve all experienced being an outsider or being in need.
As we give to others, we do well to remember our most basic need: freedom from our sin. “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
When we’re hospitable, we celebrate our generous God, who “loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7).
Reflect & Pray
What needy person or group has God drawn your attention to? What might you give to them?
Dear Father, please open my eyes to those in need.
Our Daily Bread 2025 Devotional is written by Matt Lucas and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
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