OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL READING MAY 26, 2025, MONDAY ODB MESSAGE
Our Daily Bread 26th May 2025 Devotional, Monday TOPIC: From the Deadly Sword
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 28-29; John 9:24-41
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KEY VERSE: I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you – Psalm 144:9
Today’s Scripture
Psalm 144:1-2 ,9-15
Praise be to the Lord my Rock,
who trains my hands for war,
my fingers for battle.
2 He is my loving God and my fortress,
my stronghold and my deliverer,
my shield, in whom I take refuge,
who subdues peoples[a] under me.
9 I will sing a new song to you, my God;
on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
10 to the One who gives victory to kings,
who delivers his servant David.
From the deadly sword 11 deliver me;
rescue me from the hands of foreigners
whose mouths are full of lies,
whose right hands are deceitful.
12 Then our sons in their youth
will be like well-nurtured plants,
and our daughters will be like pillars
carved to adorn a palace.
13 Our barns will be filled
with every kind of provision.
Our sheep will increase by thousands,
by tens of thousands in our fields;
14 our oxen will draw heavy loads.[a]
There will be no breaching of walls,
no going into captivity,
no cry of distress in our streets.
15 Blessed is the people of whom this is true;
blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.
INSIGHT FOR TODAY
Quick to wield the weapons of war, David rose to prominence after killing Goliath with a sling and a stone (see 1 Samuel 17). Although he was God’s anointed to lead Israel into battle, David was prohibited from building the temple for God (see 1 Chronicles 17) partly due to how “much blood” he had “shed” (22:8). Despite his military prowess, he knew he couldn’t rely on military strength. In Psalm 20 he wrote, “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God” (v. 7). And as we trust Him, we can find the strength to promote peace wherever we are.
Our Daily Bread 26th May 2025 Devotional, Monday Message:
Sabin Howard’s remarkable sculpture A Soldier’s Journey breathes with vitality and anguish. Thirty-eight bronze figures lean forward across a fifty-eight-foot bas-relief that traces the life of a World War I soldier. Completed in 2024, the panorama begins with a heartrending goodbye to family, leads us through the naive elation of departure, and moves into the horrors of battle. Finally the sculpture returns us home, where the veteran’s daughter peers into his upturned helmet—only to foresee World War II.
Howard sought “to find the thread that runs through humanity—that human beings can reach great heights, and they can sink to the level of the animal.” War reveals this reality.
The psalmist David knew well the bloody consequences of war. Aware of its tragic necessity to confront evil, he praised the God who “trains my hands for war” (Psalm 144:1). Yet he also recoiled from combat, praying, “From the deadly sword deliver me” (vv. 10-11). David looked forward to the time when the young won’t die in war, but sons “will be like well-nurtured plants” and daughters “like pillars carved to adorn a palace” (v. 12). On that day “there will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets” (v. 14).
Looking back, we remember those who’ve fallen in battle. Looking ahead, we sing with David, “I will sing a new song to you, my God” (v. 9).
REFLECT: How has war affected you? What can you do to work for peace?
PRAY: Father, we remember those who’ve died in war. We long for Your lasting peace.
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