Daily Devotional For Today 28 October 2022 : Inspirational Message and Prayer

Daily Devotional For Today 28 October 2022: Inspirational Message and Prayer

Read Daily Devotional For Today 28 October 2022

Topic: We Are God’s Children

Scripture: Romans 8: 16-17

We are God’s children and heirs to the Kingdom, but Paul tells us that there’s a hitch. If we suffer with him, we will be glorified with him. We want the glory, but probably don’t want the suffering. There is no person on earth who will escape suffering of some kind or another. We will get sick, we will lose people we love, we may lose a job, we may become homeless, and we may be or become disabled.

There will always be a cross to carry. So, what does it mean to say we must suffer with Christ? Perhaps it means that we must suffer as Christ suffered, accepting our crosses and bearing them. Yes, we can ask for help in carrying them and God wants us to do that, but not kicking and screaming that life isn’t fair. It isn’t. God doesn’t send us the bad things that happen to us, just as he didn’t send Jesus the bad things that happened to him.

What he does, is help us get through them, just as he did his Son, Jesus. Jesus does tell us that we need to pick up our crosses and carry them. We just don’t like to think about that. We also don’t like to think about obeying the will of God! Just as with human children, we don’t like to obey the rules.

Jesus obeyed the will of God to the end. He is our model of how God’s children should act. God loves us unconditionally, he wants us to be with him in glory, and is willing to help us when we call upon him. He will help us carry our crosses, he will comfort us in times of trouble and he will be there to welcome us into the Kingdom.

Prayer For Today
Loving Father, you have called us to be your children and we ask that you continue to be patient with us as follow the way of your Son, Jesus. Amen.