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The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 2nd August 2025 is “Hope Even When Life Hurts”
Bible in a Year: Psalms 60-62; Romans 5
Memory Verse: Romans 5:2
We boast in the hope of the glory of God.
Today’s Scripture & Insight: Romans 5:1-11
Reconciliation restores those who’ve been alienated. Paul uses the word reconcile more than any other New Testament author, often multiple times in a passage; for example, he uses it three times in Romans 5:10–11. He also uses it in Romans 11:15, 2 Corinthians 5:18–19, and 1 Corinthians 7:11 (related to human reconciliation).
Today’s passage highlights the necessity of Jesus’ death for our reconciliation to God. But that isn’t the end. Our reconciliation through His death leads to our salvation through His life. Paul writes, “How much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!” (Romans 5:10). Notice that there are two different tenses used: we have been reconciled and we shall be saved. Paul says that both the death of Jesus and His resurrected life are necessary to our salvation.
By: J.R. Hudberg
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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
“Hey friends,” wrote much-loved Christian comedian Steve Legg on Facebook just five days before he died in 2024. “I wanted to let you know that I came into hospital in an ambulance on Tuesday (which was exciting), because I was in a lot of pain (less exciting).” The doctors had predicted that an inoperable tumour on his bowel might be an “end-of-life event”. Yet Steve could testify in his final message, “God has been with us throughout.”
Steve Legg’s assurance in God during his last days resonated powerfully with these words from the apostle Paul: “We boast in the hope of the glory of God” (Romans 5:2). Our hope—our deep confidence in God and a place with Him in His home—is rock solid, even when life is crumbling around us. “[This] hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us” (v. 5).
Such hope can remain strong, even during suffering, because it comes from “Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation” (v. 11). We are bound to God by His Spirit, which means that we too might be able to say, “God has been with us throughout”—even in the most desperate of times.
Whatever today holds, no trial can ambush us where God won’t be right here with us. No darkness will prove our hope false.
By: Chris Wale
Reflect & Pray
When have you experienced God’s presence in a fiery trial? What does it look like for you to “boast in the hope of the glory of God”?
Heavenly Father, it is so good to know that You are with me throughout everything I face or may face. Thank You that my hope is rock-solid and secure in Jesus.
Our Daily Bread 2025 Devotional is written by Con Campbell and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
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