DAILY HOPE WITH RICK WARREN 1ST APRIL 2026.
Daily Hope Devotional by Pastor Rick Warren for today 1st April 2026 is here to give you the encouragement to live the life God has called you to. Please read, pray and share this devotional with someone today.
The topic of Daily Hope by Rick Warren 1st April 2026 ”How God Calls Us to Treat Others ”
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: John 8:11 (NIV)
Neither do I condemn you,’ Jesus declared. ‘Go now and leave your life of sin.
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RICK WARREN DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY 1ST APRIL 2026.
If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, God calls you to treat everyone with dignity. It doesn’t matter if they act, think, or worship differently than you. He still wants you to treat them with dignity. Why?
Because that’s what Jesus did.
Jesus accepted everyone. This doesn’t mean he approved of everything people did. He doesn’t approve of everything you do either, but he accepts you and treats you with dignity.
In John 8, Jesus treated a humiliated woman with dignity, but her accusers did not. Instead, they brought her before Jesus and said, “This woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” (John 8:4-5 NLT)
Jesus knew they were just trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, so he “stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. . . . [Then] he stood up again and said, ‘All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!’” (John 8:6-7 NLT).
Nobody knows what Jesus wrote in the dirt, because the Bible doesn’t tell us. Some scholars think he wrote down the sins of the woman’s accusers: judgmentalism, arrogance, dishonesty, or spousal abuse. After all, Jesus, being God, knew their secret sins and wanted to get to the heart of the matter.
What did her accusers end up doing? John 8:9 says, “They slipped away one by one . . . until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman” (NLT). They didn’t stick around to condemn her.
And Jesus didn’t condemn her either. Instead, he showed her mercy. John 8:11 says, “‘Neither do I condemn you,’ Jesus declared. ‘Go now and leave your life of sin’” (NIV).
Did this woman do something wrong? Yes. She cheated on her husband. But Jesus protected her dignity in a public situation and dealt with her sin gently. He, in effect, said, “Don’t do this anymore.” He changed her.
That’s why I love Jesus—because he does the same thing with me. He treats me with mercy, even though I don’t deserve it. That’s what he does in your life, too—and it’s how he wants you to treat others.
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