June 28, 2024 8:00 pm
To express her sadness, Allie, a young girl, wrote on a piece of wood and set it in a park: “To be honest, I’m sad. Nobody ever wants to hang out with me, and I have lost the only person that listens. I cry every day.”
When someone found that note, she brought sidewalk chalk to the park and asked people to write their thoughts to Allie. Dozens of words of support were left by students from a nearby school: “We love you.” “God loves you.” “You are beloved.” The school principal said, “This is one little way that we can reach out and maybe help fill [her void]. She represents all of us because at some point in time we have all or will all experience sadness and suffering.”
The phrase “You are beloved” reminds me of a beautiful blessing by Moses to the Israelite tribe of Benjamin just before he died: “Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him” (Deuteronomy 33:12). Moses had been a strong leader for God, defeating enemy nations, receiving the Ten Commandments, and challenging them to follow God. He left them with God’s view of them. The word beloved can be used of us as well, for Jesus said, “God so loved the world that He gave [us] his one and only Son” (John 3:16).
As God helps us to rest securely in the truth that every believer in Jesus is “beloved,” we can reach out to love others as Allie’s new friends did.
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Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Our reading titled, You Are Beloved, was written by Anne Cetus. When someone found that note, she brought sidewalk chalk to the park and asked people to write their thoughts to Allie.
Dozens of words of support were left by students from a nearby school. We love you. God loves you. You are beloved.
The school principal said, This is one little way that we can reach out and maybe help fill her void. She represents all of us because at some point in time we have all or will all experience sadness and suffering. The phrase, You are beloved, reminds me of a beautiful blessing by Moses in Deuteronomy 33 to the Israelite tribe of Benjamin just before he died. Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him. Moses had been a strong leader for God, defeating enemy nations, receiving the Ten Commandments, and challenging them to follow God.
He left them with God's view of them. The word beloved can be used of us as well. For Jesus said, God so loved the world that he gave us his one and only son.
As God helps us to rest securely in the truth that every believer in Jesus is beloved, we can reach out to love others as Allie's new friends did. Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Deuteronomy chapter 33 verses 1 through 5 and verse 12. This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, pronounced on the Israelites before his death. He said, The Lord came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir. He shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.
Surely it is you who love the people. All the holy ones are in your hand. At your feet they all bow down, and from you receive instruction. The law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.
He was king over Jeshurun when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of Israel. Now finishing with verse 12, about Benjamin he said, Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long. And the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders. Let's pray. Dear Father, we have an epidemic of loneliness today in society and it must break your heart. When we feel lonely, please fill the void and help us to be aware of those who are struggling with loneliness and spread your love to them today. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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