Our Daily Bread Devotional 2024

WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2022 OUR DAILY BREAD: TRUSTING OUR TO GOD

Our Daily Bread Devotional Message for November 23rd, 2022

WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2022 OUR DAILY BREAD: TRUSTING OUR TO GOD

Read Today’s Our Daily Bread Devotional Message for November 23rd, 2022. Don’t Miss Out On God’s Blessing

Read and Digest OUR DAILY BREAD Devotional written By Winn Collier and was published to bless, inspire and uplift you every day as you benefit from the deep Insight of God’s infallible WORD.

WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2022 OUR DAILY BREAD: TRUSTING OUR TO GOD

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Today’s Topic: Trusting Our Future to God

Bible in a Year: Ezekiel 20–21; James 5

Bible Verse: No one knows what is coming. Ecclesiastes 10:14

Today’s Scripture & Insight: Ecclesiastes 10:12–14

INSIGHT – WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2022 OUR DAILY BREAD:

The book of Ecclesiastes is perfectly suited for a postmodern world like ours. Why? Because it looks at life through a rather cynical perspective until the very end of the book when faith in God is once again lifted up. The keys to understanding this book are found in its opening chapters where the author, believed to have been Solomon, used repetitive phrases to lay the foundation of his argument.

“Meaningless! Meaningless!” (1:2) speaks of both the brevity and emptiness of life, and “under the sun” (v. 3) refers to life lived according to the values and priorities of this world system as opposed to the values and priorities of God Himself. The author’s own disgruntled worldview is captured in 2:17, where he wrote, “So I hated life.” The response to such despair? “Remember your Creator” (12:1). By: Bill Crowder

OUR DAILY BREAD 23 NOVEMBER 2022 MESSAGE

In 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first purchase with bitcoin (a digital currency then worth a fraction of a penny each), paying 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas ($25). In 2021, at its highest value during the year, those bitcoins would have been worth well more than $500 million. Back before the value skyrocketed, he kept paying for pizzas with coins, spending 100,000 bitcoins total. If he’d kept those bitcoins, their value would’ve made him a billionaire sixty-eight times over and placed him on the Forbes’ “richest people in the world” list. If only he’d known what was coming.

Of course, Hanyecz couldn’t possibly have known. None of us could have. Despite our attempts to comprehend and control the future, Ecclesiastes rings true: “No one knows what is coming” (10:14). Some of us delude ourselves into thinking we know more than we do, or worse, that we possess some special insight about another person’s life or future. But as Ecclesiastes pointedly asks: “who can tell someone else what will happen after them?” (v. 14). No one.

Scripture contrasts a wise and a foolish person, and one of the many distinctions between the two is humility about the future (Proverbs 27:1). A wise person recognizes that only God truly knows what’s over the horizon as they make decisions. But foolish people presume knowledge that isn’t theirs. May we have wisdom, trusting our future to the only One who actually knows it. By: Winn Collier

Today’s Reflection & Prayer:

Where do you see temptation to control the future? How can you better trust God with your coming days?

Dear God, help me to simply trust You today.

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