Our Daily Bread Devotional 16 August 2022 ODB Today

Our Daily Bread Devotional 16 August 2022 ODB Today Titled Crushed and Beautiful

DAILY BREAD DEVOTION OF THE DAY 16TH AUGUST 2022

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TOPIC: CRUSHED AND BEAUTIFUL

Our Daily Bread Devotional 16th August 2022 ODB Today || Bible Verse

My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart. – Psalm 51:17

ODB Devotional 16 August 2022 Our Daily Bread Today || Today’s Scripture: Psalm 51:10–17

READ || Our Daily Bread Devotional 16 August 2022 ODB Today || INSIGHT

At first glance I dismissed the painting Consider the Lilies by Makoto Fujimura as a simple, monochromatic painting featuring a lily seemingly hiding in the background. However, the painting came alive when I learned it was actually painted with more than eighty layers of finely crushed minerals in a style of Japanese art known as Nihonga, a style Fujimura calls “slow art.” Looking closely reveals layers of complexity and beauty. Fujimura explains that he sees the gospel echoed in the technique of making “beauty through brokenness,” just as Jesus’ suffering brought the world wholeness and hope.

Our Daily Bread Devotional 16 August 2022 ODB Today

God loves to take aspects of our lives where we’ve been crushed and broken and create something new and beautiful. King David needed God’s help to repair the brokenness in his life caused by his own devastating actions. In Psalm 51, written after admitting to abusing his kingly power to take another man’s wife and arrange the murder of her husband, David offered God his “broken and contrite heart” (v. 17) and pleaded for mercy. The Hebrew word translated “contrite” is nidkeh, meaning “crushed.”

For God to refashion his heart (v. 10), David had to first offer Him the broken pieces. It was both an admission of sorrow and trust. David entrusted his heart to a faithful and forgiving God, who lovingly takes what’s been crushed and transforms it into something beautiful. By: Lisa M. Samra

Bible in a Year: Psalms 94–96, Romans 15:14–33

Our Daily Bread 16th August 2022 ODB Devotional Today || REFLECT: What parts of your heart are crushed? How might you entrust your brokenness to God?

Our Daily Bread Devotional 16 August 2022 ODB Today || PRAYER

Dear God, I entrust my brokenness to You, believing that in Your time, You’ll transform it into something truly beautiful.

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