Our Daily Bread 27 July 2022 ODB Devotional ~ The Key

Our Daily Bread 27 July 2022 ODB Devotional || The Key

Our Daily Bread 27 July 2022 ODB Devotional Titled The Key

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TOPIC: THE KEY

Our Daily Bread 27th July 2022 ODB Devotional || Bible Verse

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. – Matthew 11:29

Our Daily Bread 27 July 2022 ODB Devotional || Today’s Scripture: Matthew 11:25–29

READ || Our Daily Bread 27 July 2022 ODB Devotional || INSIGHT

In his classic book The Human Condition, Thomas Keating shares this memorable tale. A teacher, having lost the key to his home, is on his hands and knees searching through the grass. When his disciples see him searching, they join the hunt, but with no success. Finally, “one of the more intelligent disciples” asks, “Master, have you any idea where you might have lost the key?” Their teacher replies, “Of course. I lost it in the house.” When they exclaim, “Then why are we looking for it out here?” he answers, “Isn’t it obvious? There is more light here.”

We have lost the key to “intimacy with God, the experience of God’s loving presence,” Keating concludes. “Without that experience, nothing else quite works; with it, almost anything works.”

How easy it is to forget that even in life’s ups and downs, God remains the key to our deepest longings. But when we’re ready to stop looking in all the wrong places, God is there, ready to show us true rest. In Matthew 11, Jesus praises the Father for revealing His ways, not to the “wise and learned,” but “to little children” (v. 25). Then He invites “all you who are weary and burdened” (v. 28) to come to Him for rest.

Like little children, we can find true rest as we learn the ways of our Teacher, who’s “gentle and humble in heart” (v. 29). God is there, eager to welcome us home. By: Monica La Rose

Bible in a Year: Psalms 43–45, Acts 27:27–44

Our Daily Bread 27 July 2022 ODB Devotional || REFLECT: When are you tempted to look for satisfaction and joy in the wrong places? What helps you remember to find peace, rest, and satisfaction in God instead?

Our Daily Bread 27 July 2022 ODB Devotional || PRAYER:

Loving God, how easily I’m drawn to seek satisfaction in whatever looks brightest. Help me turn to You to find true rest.

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