May 30, 2022 – Our Daily Bread Devotional for Monday
Our Daily Bread 30 May 2022 was written by Winn Collier (our Daily Bread Ministries). Read May 30, 2022 – Our Daily Bread Devotional for Monday and be blessed.
TOPIC: Healing for the Whole World
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: 2 Corinthians 5:11–19
KEY VERSE: God . . . reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. – 2 Corinthians 5:18
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Chronicles 10–12, John 11:30–57
May 30, 2022 – Our Daily Bread Devotional for Monday INSIGHT: Paul makes this sobering statement in 2 Corinthians 5:10: “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” Yet he uses this truth not as a scare tactic but as a tool to spur us on to useful service for God. This is why he says, “Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others” (v. 11). Paul added, “Christ’s love compels us” (v. 14). Because Jesus “died for all, . . . those who live should no longer live for themselves” (v. 15). Jesus’ love motivates our service for Him.
May 30, 2022 – Our Daily Bread Devotional for Monday MESSAGE
Tucked into a remote gorge in western Slovenia, a secret medical facility (Franja Partisan Hospital) housed an extensive staff that tended to thousands of wounded soldiers during World War II—all the while staying hidden from the Nazis. Though avoiding detection from numerous Nazi attempts to locate the facility is in itself a remarkable feat, even more remarkable is that the hospital (founded and run by the Slovenia resistance movement) cared for soldiers from both the Allied and Axis armies. The hospital welcomed everyone.
Scripture calls us to help the whole world to be spiritually healed. This means we need to have compassion for all—regardless of their views. Everyone, no matter their ideology, deserves Christ’s love and kindness. Paul insists that Jesus’ all-embracing love “compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all” (2 Corinthians 5:14). All of us suffer the sickness of sin. All of us are in desperate need of the healing of Jesus’ forgiveness. And He’s moved toward all of us in order to heal us.
Then, in a surprising move, God entrusted us with “the message of reconciliation” (v. 19). God invites us to tend to wounded and broken people (like us). We participate in healing work where the sick are made healthy through union with Him. And this reconciliation, this healing, is for all who will receive it.
May 30, 2022 – Our Daily Bread Devotional for Monday
REFLECT: Who are the people you think God won’t (or shouldn’t) heal? Where might He call you to be a reconciler and a healer?
PRAY: God, I need healing. And so it shouldn’t surprise me that everyone else needs healing too. Help me be part of Your healing of others.
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May 30, 2022 – Our Daily Bread Devotional for Monday. Our Daily Bread Ministries (ODB) is a Christian organization founded by Dr. Martin De Haan in 1938. It is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with over 600 employees. It produces several devotional publications, including Our Daily Bread. our daily bread booklet. Our Daily Bread 30th May 2022 ODB Devotional Message.