Our Daily Bread 3rd November 2025 Devotional – Today’s Insight, Bible Reading & Prayer – Monday ODB Message
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TOPIC: Joined by Jesus
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BIBLE IN A YEAR: Jeremiah 30-31, Philemon
KEY VERSE: In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. Ephesians 2:21
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
Ephesians 2:12-22
INSIGHT FOR TODAY
The joining together of Jews and gentiles through Jesus is the clear focus of Ephesians 2:12-20. This passage moves from estrangement (“separate,” “excluded,” “foreigners,” “without hope and without God,” “far away,” vv. 12-13) to reconciliation (v. 16). Using body and building metaphors (vv. 16, 19-22), Paul captures the unifying work of Christ. Of note are two rarely used Greek New Testament words: akrogōniaios (“chief cornerstone,” v. 20) and synarmologeō (“joined together,” v. 21). Jesus is the chief cornerstone who holds the whole building—Jews and gentiles—together. (Insight By: Arthur Jackson)
Our Daily Bread – 3rd November 2025 Devotional MESSAGE
Andy Goldsworthy’s Grand Rapids Arch sits on the side of a road as if striding alongside travelers. The artist created the eighteen-foot-tall, free-standing arch with thirty-six blocks of Scottish sandstone without using mortar or pins. The ascending angled stones, each one different and cut to fit together, depend on pressure created by a wedge-shaped keystone—the top center stone—to remain perfectly intact. The keystone is essential to holding the structure together, much like a cornerstone.
The sculpture reminded me of how Jesus serves as “the chief cornerstone” of His diverse church (Ephesians 2:20). The gentiles—all non-Jewish people—were once “excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world” (v. 12). Jesus made “the two groups one” and “destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility” (v. 14). He created “one new humanity,” and “in one body [reconciled] both of them to God through the cross,” giving them all “access to the Father by one Spirit” (vv. 15-16, 18).
Christ builds us up as a church “in which God lives by his Spirit” (v. 22). He sculpts each unique person, connects us to Him and to each other through Him, and walks with us. The church is joined by Jesus. (Message By: Xochitl Dixon)
REFLECT: What hinders you from connecting to Jesus as Messiah, the one who unites the church? How has He helped you connect to His diverse church?
PRAY: Dear Jesus, please strengthen my connection with You and the members of Your diverse family
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