When to Sacrifice | Our Daily Bread Today 19 October 2021 Devotional
Welcome to Tuesday 19 October 2021 today Our Daily Bread devotional titled When to Sacrifice written by By: Sheridan Voysey. A message design to empower your spirit for exploits.
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Our Daily Bread Today 19 October 2021 Devotional
Topic: When to Sacrifice
KEY VERSE:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22–23
Today’s Scripture: Galatians 5:22–26
INSIGHT
In February 2020, as the COVID-19 crisis was just beginning, a newspaper columnist’s concerns struck me. Would we willingly self-isolate, she wondered, changing our work, travel, and shopping habits so others wouldn’t get sick? “This isn’t just a test of clinical resources,” she wrote, “but of our willingness to put ourselves out for others.” Suddenly, the need for virtue was front-page news.
It can be hard to consider others’ needs while we’re anxious about our own. Thankfully, we’re not left with willpower alone to meet the need. We can ask the Holy Spirit to give us love to replace our indifference, joy to counter sadness, peace to replace our anxiety, forbearance (patience) to push out our impulsiveness, kindness to care about others, goodness to see to their needs, faithfulness to keep our promises, gentleness instead of harshness, and self-control to lift us beyond self-centeredness (Galatians 5:22–23). While we won’t be perfect at all of this, we’re called to seek the Spirit’s gifts of virtue regularly (Ephesians 5:18).
Author Richard Foster once described holiness as the ability to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done. And such holiness is needed every day, not just in a pandemic. Do we have the capacity to make sacrifices for the sake of others? Holy Spirit, fill us with the power to do what needs to be done. By: Sheridan Voysey
REFLECT: When have you made a sacrifice for the sake of others? What needs around you call for the Holy Spirit’s fruit today?
PRAYER:
Holy Spirit, fill me afresh today and make me a person of virtue.
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