Hotel Corona

Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Today's reading titled Hotel Corona was written by Monica LaRose the Dan hotel in Jerusalem became known by a different name in 2020 hotel Corona the government dedicated the hotel to patients recovering from covert, 19, and the hotel became known as a rare sight of joy and unity during a difficult time. Since the residents already had the virus. They were free to sing, dance and laugh together and they did. In a country where tensions between different political and religious groups in high the shared crisis created a space where people could learn to see each other as human beings.

First, and even become friends.

It's natural, normal, even for us to be drawn toward those we see as similar to us, people we suspect share similar experiences and values to our own, but as the apostle Paul often emphasized the gospel is a challenge to any barriers between human beings that we see as normal through the lens of the gospel we see a bigger picture than our differences as shared brokenness and a shared longing and need to experience healing and God's love. If we believe that one died for all, and we can also no longer be content with service-level assumptions about others. Instead, Christ love compels us to share his love and mission with those God loves more than you can imagine all of us today Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is from second Corinthians chapter 5 verses 14 through 20, for Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died and he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view that we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, the newest year. All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them, and he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God. Let's pray, letting God in such divided times it's easy to view those who view things differently than us is less than us. But as Paul said in today's Scripture reading. You have reconciled us to yourself so we should also reconcile others to ourselves, help us to view others through the same eyes that you view us and see others as your dearly beloved, may our lives be a reflection of our new life in Christ as we share serve love, and minister to everyone who crosses our path. Thank you, Lord. It's in Jesus name we pray.

Amen. Today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread ministries