OUR DAILY BREAD 8TH JANUARY 2025 DEVOTIONAL, WEDNESDAY ODB MESSAGE
Our Daily Bread 8th January 2025 Devotional TOPIC: A Deaf Heart
BIBLE IN YEAR: Genesis 20-22; Matthew 6:19-34
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KEY VERSE: Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil. – Hebrews 2:14
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
Hebrews 2:9-18
TODAY’S ODB INSIGHT
Why does Hebrews 2:10 say that Jesus was made “perfect”? As God in human flesh, wasn’t He perfect already? According to scholar Marvin R. Vincent, the Greek word translated “perfect,” teleioō, literally means “to carry to the goal” and possesses the connotative meaning of “consummation.”
The idea is that Christ was made “complete” by His suffering and death. He understands in the fullest way possible what we face in this difficult world. This provides us with a greater understanding of His words from the cross: “It is finished” (John 19:30). He’d completed the mission His Father gave Him to do.
OUR DAILY BREAD 8 JANUARY 2025 – WEDNESDAY ODB DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE:
To improve her sign language skills, Leisa immersed herself in the world of the Deaf. Soon she learned the problems they face. The Deaf are awkwardly ignored by hearing people, expected to lip-read flawlessly, and routinely get passed over for promotions at work. Most public events go uninterpreted.
Leisa’s signing steadily improved to the point where she felt at home with the Deaf. At a party, a Deaf person was surprised to learn Leisa could hear. Before Leisa could respond, another friend signed, “She has a Deaf heart.” The key had been Leisa’s willingness to live in their world.
Leisa didn’t “condescend” to be with the Deaf. Except for her hearing, she was like them. But Jesus did stoop to reach all of us—to live in our world. He “was made lower than the angels for a little while” (Hebrews 2:9). Christ “shared in [our] humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil” (v. 14). In doing so, He freed “those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death” (v. 15). More than that, He was “fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God” (v. 17).
Whatever we face, Jesus knows and understands. He hears our heart. He’s with us in every way.
REFLECT: What does it mean to you that Jesus has experienced the same hardships you face? How might you step into someone else’s world for a while?
PRAY: Thank You, Father, for the gift of Your Son, who brings me into Your family.
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