OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL 1ST FEBRUARY 2025 SATURDAY ODB MESSAGE
Our Daily Bread Devotional 1st February 2025 TOPIC: Our Father’s Love
BIBLE IN YEAR: Exodus 27-28; Matthew 21:1-22
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KEY VERSE: See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. – 1 John 3:1
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
1 John 3:1-3, 16-24
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Our Daily Bread Devotional 1st February 2025 – Saturday Message
Kim settled in by the window, bag packed, waiting eagerly for her daddy to arrive. But as the bright day darkened and then turned to night, her enthusiasm faded. She realized Daddy wasn’t coming—again.
Kim’s parents were divorced, and she longed to spend time with her father. Not for the first time she thought, I must not really matter. He must not love me.
As Kim later learned—and as all of us who receive Jesus as our Savior come to know—though our earthly parents and others will disappoint us, we have a heavenly Father who loves us and won’t let us down.
John—the author of three inspired biblical letters, the gospel bearing his name, and the book of Revelation—understood the depth of God’s love. In fact, he referred to himself as “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 21:20), identifying himself as someone whose life had been changed by Christ’s love for him. “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” he wrote (1 John 3:1).
God loves us so much that He gave His Son Jesus, who laid down His life for us (v. 16; John 3:16). He’s always available to us in prayer, and He promises, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5). We can rest secure in His love.
TODAY’S INSIGHT
John begins 1 John in a similar way to the opening of his gospel account. In both cases, he goes back to the beginning to affirm Jesus’ identity as God the Son (John 1:1-5; 1 John 1:1-3). In John’s gospel, he does so by showing the Son’s equality with the Father and His primary role in creation: “He was with God in the beginning” and “through him all things were made” (John 1:2-3). In 1 John, the author repeats the idea of Christ’s presence “from the beginning” (1:1) yet affirms that He came and lived among us (v. 2).
REFLECT: When has another person disappointed you? How have you found comfort in your heavenly Father?
PRAY: Heavenly Father, thank You for the great love You lavish on me. I rest in Your promise that You’ll never forsake me.
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