OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
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The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 21st December 2024 is “Window to the Wonderful”
Bible in a Year: Micah 4-5; Revelation 12
Memory Verse: Revelation 22:5 nlt
There will be no night there—no need for lamps or sun—for the Lord God will shine on them.
Today’s Scripture & Insight: Revelation 21:23-22:5
In Revelation 21:1-22:5, we’re given a vision of “a new heaven and a new earth” (21:1), our home once Christ returns and makes all things right. One striking element of this vision is that the old creation seems to be still recognizable in the new; the new Jerusalem, for example, is still recognizable as Jerusalem (v. 10). Humanity still enjoys fellowship in a city. God has wholly redeemed and transformed His good creation.
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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
Photographer Ronn Murray likes cold weather. “Cold means clear skies,” he explains. “And that can open a window to the wonderful!”
Ronn provides Alaskan photography tours dedicated to tracking Earth’s most spectacular light show—aurora borealis (the northern lights). Murray speaks of the experience as “very spiritual.” If you’ve ever seen this iridescent display dance across the heavens, you’ll understand why.
But the lights aren’t only a northern phenomenon. Aurora australis, nearly identical to borealis, occurs simultaneously in the south—the same kind of lights.
In the disciple John’s telling of the Christmas story, he skips the stable and shepherds and goes directly to the one who “brought light to everyone” (John 1:4 nlt). When John later writes of a heavenly city, he describes the source of its light. This “city has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its light” (Revelation 21:23 nlt). This light source is Jesus—the same source referenced in John 1. And for those who inhabit this future dwelling, “there will be no night there—no need for lamps or sun—for the Lord God will shine on them” (22:5 nlt).
As our lives reflect this light of the world—the one who created aurora borealis and australis—we open a window to the truly wonderful.
Reflect & Pray
When or how have natural wonders dazzled you? What’s distracting you from reflecting God’s light to the world?
Dear Creator of the cosmos, may the beauty of the night sky remind me that You’re the true light of the world.
Our Daily Bread 2024 Devotional is written by Con Campbell and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
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