Our Daily Bread Devotional 14 October 2022 ODB Today Titled Baby Boy

TOPIC: BABY BOY

Our Daily Bread Devotional 14 October 2022 ODB Today || Bible Verse

[God] defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you. – Deuteronomy 10:18

Our Daily Bread Devotional 14 October 2022 ODB Today || Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:14–22

READ || Our Daily Bread Devotional October 2022 ODB Today || INSIGHT

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or more than a year, his legal name was “Baby Boy.” Discovered by a security guard who heard his cries, Baby Boy had been abandoned—hours old and wrapped only in a bag—in a hospital parking lot.

Soon after his discovery, Social Services called the people who would one day become his forever family. The couple took him in and called him Grayson (not his real name). Finally, the adoption was complete, and Grayson’s name became official. Today you can meet a delightful child who mispronounces his r’s as he earnestly engages you in conversation. You’d never guess he’d once been found abandoned in a bag.

Late in his life, Moses reviewed God’s character and what He’d done for the people of Israel. “The Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them,” Moses told them (Deuteronomy 10:15). This love had a broad scope. “He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing,” Moses said (v. 18). “He is the one you praise; he is your God” (v. 21).

Whether it’s through adoption or simply through love and service, we’re all called to reflect God’s love. That loving couple became the hands and feet God used to extend His love to someone who might have gone unnoticed and unclaimed. We can serve as His hands and feet too. By: Tim Gustafson

Bible in a Year: Isaiah 43–44, 1 Thessalonians 2

Our Daily Bread Devotional 14 October 2022 ODB Today || Reflect How have you sensed God extending His love to you in ways large and small? What small thing might you do today to reflect that love?

Our Daily Bread Devotional 14 October 2022 ODB Today || Prayer

Heavenly Father, have mercy on the fatherless. Help me to be Your hands and feet today.

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