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January 5, 2021 7:00 pm
Three-year-old Dylan McCoy had just learned to swim when he fell through a rotted plywood covering into a forty-foot deep, stone-walled well in his grandfather’s backyard. Dylan managed to stay afloat in ten feet of water until his father climbed down the slippery rocks to rescue him. Firefighters brought ropes to raise the boy but the father was so worried about his son that he hastily climbed down to make sure he was safe.
Oh, the love of a parent! Oh, the lengths (and depths) we will go for our children!
When the apostle John writes to believers in the early church who were struggling to find footing for their faith as false teaching swirled about them, he extends these words like a life-preserver: “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1). Naming the followers of Jesus as “children” of God was an intimate and legal labeling that brought validity to all who follow Jesus.
Oh, the lengths and depths God will go for His children!
There are actions a parent will take only for their child—like Dylan’s dad descending into a well to save his son. And like the ultimate act of our heavenly Father, who sent His only Son to gather us close to His heart and restore us to life with Him (vv. 5–6).
Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Today's reading titled damps of love was written by Lisa Morgan three-year-old Dylan McCoy just learned to swim.
When he fell through a rotted plywood covering into a 40 foot deep stonewalled well in his grandfather's backyard. Dylan managed to stay afloat and 10 feet of water until his father went down to rescue him. Firefighters brought ropes to raise the boy but the father was so worried about his son that he'd already climbed down the slippery rocks to make sure he was safe. Oh, the love of a parent over the length and depth.
We will go for our children when the apostle John writes to believers in the early church were struggling to find funding for their faith is false teaching swirled about them. He extends these words like a life preserver.
See what great love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are naming believers in Jesus as children of God was an intimate and legal labeling that brought validity to all who trust in him or the length and depth. God will go for his children.
Their actions apparent will take only for their child like Dylan's dad descending into a well to save his son. And like the ultimate act of our heavenly father who sent his only son together us close to his heart and restore us to life with him.
Today's Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is from first John chapter 3 verses one through six. See what great love the father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are the reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known.
But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is all who have this hope in him purify themselves just as he is pure everyone who sins breaks the law and fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins and in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him its prey. Heavenly father, we thank you for reaching into the well of our need to rescue us to bring us back to you. We lift up those who still don't know you and you are experiencing the emptiness of life without you. We pray that their hearts would turn toward you, that they may be also saved. Thank you, Lord.
It's in Jesus name that we pray. Amen. Today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread ministries
