Our Daily Bread Devotional – 27th November 2025: A Humble Thanksgiving

Our Daily Bread Devotional 27th November 2025 – Today’s Insight, Bible Reading & Prayer – Thursday ODB Message

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TOPIC:  A Humble Thanksgiving

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezekiel 30-32; 1 Peter 4

KEY VERSE: Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it. – Proverbs 22:6

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 22:1-6

INSIGHT FOR TODAY
It’s fascinating that the man who collected or wrote most of the sayings in the book of Proverbs (King Solomon) is also believed to be the writer of Ecclesiastes. The proverbs essentially say, Do this, and get that result. Do wise things and get good results; do foolish things and pay the price. However, Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes, “With much wisdom comes much sorrow” (1:18). Yet in Proverbs he says, “Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding” (4:7). Ecclesiastes shows us the futility of life without God at the center; Proverbs instructs us how and why to live wisely. And so we live by the wisdom of the Proverbs: “A good name is more desirable than great riches” (22:1). And “humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life” (v. 4)—a truth that will see its full fruition in the next life. (Insight By: Tim Gustafson)

Our Daily Bread Devotional – 27th November 2025 | ODB MESSAGE

One Thanksgiving I called home to greet my parents. As we talked, I asked my mom what she was most grateful for. She exclaimed that she was most grateful that “all three of my children know how to call on the name of the Lord.” For my mother, who’d always emphasized the importance of education, there was something more valuable than her children doing well in school and taking care of themselves.

Her sentiments remind me of Proverbs 22:6: “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” While this isn’t a promise but more a wise principle, and many children do wander from God for at least a season of life, she and my father had strived to raise us to humbly, reverently love God (v. 4)—primarily through example. Now, by His grace, they were able to see us grow older and benefit from a personal relationship with Him. As verse 2 says, God is “the Maker of . . . all.” And although some children will respond to loving instruction in Christ, others might take longer perhaps to hear His voice. For those precious children, we continue to pray and rest in God’s timing.

Mom’s humble thanksgiving points to what’s most important in life. Reverently loving God yields spiritual riches for this life and beyond (v. 4). And while we can’t control what children will choose to do, we can rest in the hope that God will lovingly continue to work in their hearts. (Message By: Katara Patton)

REFLECT: How have you been shown the love of God? How do you reverently love Him?

PRAY: Dear God, please help me to love and disciple others well.

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