OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
Our Daily Bread for today 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 nuture your faith and help in your daily walk to Christ.
The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 19th May 2025 is “Purified Gold”
Bible in a Year: 1 Chronicles 7-9, John 6:22-44
Memory Verse: Job 23:10
He knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
Today’s Scripture & Insight: Job 23:1-12
The date and author of the book of Job is unknown. Some scholars suggest that Job lived at about the same time as Abraham and that Moses is the author. When Job’s three friends heard about his sufferings (Job 1–2), they offered an explanation. Over three rounds of debate (Job 4–14; 15–21; 22–27) they argued with Job that suffering is always a result of sin (4:7–9; 8:4–7). Rejecting their explanations, Job sought to find an answer directly from God (23:1–5). At a time when Job needed Him most, God was seemingly absent (vv. 8–9). Yet despite the silence and lack of answers, Job entrusted himself to God’s ways and drew strength from God’s Word (vv. 10–12).
By: K.T. Sim
Click Here to Read Previous ODB Devotional
ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
Andy moved around when he was a child, from Zimbabwe to Sheffield to Bristol, and struggled with social anxiety and making friends. “I had a lump in my throat every day and I couldn’t speak. I was quiet as a mouse, which wasn’t my personality.” Each day he’d cry, not knowing how to change.
Then one day he opened the Old Testament to Job’s story, and the words felt like a revelation to him: “But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold” (Job 23:10). With this, Andy understood that even though he was going through a dark time, yet his character would be formed by it: “I would be a gold person!”
Andy read from Job’s story, the Bible’s famous account of suffering—and of God’s redeeming love. In it, Job shares with his friends about his yearnings for God: “If only I could go to his dwelling!” (v. 3). Although he longs to find Him in the silence, Job trusts that God loves him and is at work in his life; that through the challenges he’ll come forth as gold (v. 10).
So too for Andy. Through God’s love he grew in confidence, slowly making friends and becoming more himself. So too for us—we can trust that God will shape our character by His love as our feet closely follow His steps (v. 11).
By: Amy Boucher Pye
Reflect & Pray
When you look back at trials in your life, how can you trace God’s love and grace in them? How have you changed as you’ve followed Christ?
Loving God, I don’t always know why hard and horrible things happen, but I trust that You are good, gracious and kind.
Our Daily Bread 2025 Devotional is written by Con Campbell and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
Visit the ODB official website here: www.odb.org
Thank you for reading. This Devotional was shared via www.TheDevotionals.Com.NG
♥Blessed by this? Click here to Share This Devotional
