Our Daily Bread Devotional Wednesday 23 May 2023 Titled Not a Dream

The topic for today’s Our Daily Bread devotional is Not a Dream for today today Wednesday 23 May 2023 for your spiritual development.

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Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. – Ephesians 5:14

Today’s Scripture & Insight: Acts 12:1–11

Our Daily Bread Devotional Wednesday 23 May 2023 Titled Not a Dream

It’s like living in a dream you can’t wake up from. People who struggle with what’s sometimes called “derealization” or “depersonalization” often feel like nothing around them is quite real. While those who chronically have this feeling can be diagnosed with a disorder, it’s believed to be a common mental health struggle, especially during stressful times. But sometimes the feeling persists even when life is seemingly good. It’s as if our minds can’t trust that good things are really happening.

Scripture describes a similar struggle of God’s people at times to experience His power and deliverance as something real, not just a dream. In Acts 12, when an angel delivers Peter from prison—and possible execution (vv. 2, 4)—the apostle is described as being in a daze, not sure it was really happening (vv. 9–10). When the angel left him outside the jail, Peter finally “came to his senses” and realized it had all been real (v. 11 nlt).

In both bad times and good, it can be hard sometimes to fully believe or experience that God is really at work in our lives. But we can trust that as we wait on Him, His resurrection power will one day become undeniably, wonderfully real. God’s light will rouse us from our sleep into the reality of life with Him (Ephesians 5:14). By: Monica La Rose