🔥 Day 19: You Are The One
The Lie: Someone else will help them
The Truth Bomb: You are the one God sent to love them
Read The Daily:
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” – 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Post by Todd Deere
Life is full of seasons—some wonderful, others difficult—but each one has a purpose. God uniquely prepares us for His plans, often using the experiences in our lives to shape us into the people He calls us to be. Sometimes, those experiences are painful. Yet, in hindsight, we often see God’s hand at work, preparing us for something greater.
One of the most humbling realizations in the Christian walk is that:
God doesn’t waste our pain; He redeems it, often using it to bring comfort and hope to others.
I experienced a season when someone I love very much faced a difficult trial. Their suffering weighed so heavily on me that I could barely function. I cried out to God for help, often feeling like I didn’t even have the strength to take another step. During that time, a friend told me something I couldn’t fully appreciate in the moment: this was just a season. God would bring me through it, and one day, I’d be able to look back and see how He had worked through it all. Those words planted a seed of hope, even in the toughest days.
God did answer my prayers. He healed my loved one. Years later, I was reminded of how God had been at work when someone publicly shared that they were struggling with a similar situation. God led me to reach out. I called this person and shared my story—how God had brought me through my own trial, and how I trusted He could do the same for them. We talked for over an hour, and I had the privilege of praying with him, thanking God for His faithfulness and asking for His intervention. Following that call, I got on my knees and thanked God for allowing me to experience that difficult season and preparing me to encourage this person.
This reminds me of Moses’ story in Exodus. As a young man, Moses fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian, spending forty years in the wilderness of Midian. What must have felt like a season of exile and insignificance turned out to be God’s preparation. Through those years, Moses learned humility, leadership, and dependence on God. When the time came, God called Moses to return to Egypt to lead His people out of slavery. Moses’ wilderness experience equipped him to guide the Israelites through their own wilderness journey. Like Moses, God often uses our struggles to prepare us for the work He has for us.
When we face trials, it’s easy to focus on the pain and forget that God is at work. But 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 reminds us that God is the “Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction.” What we experience is not just for our growth; it equips us to share God’s comfort and hope with others. We may not always see the purpose immediately, but we can trust that God is turning our lives into something greater.
The next time you face a difficult season (or maybe in one right now?), remember that God is both preparing and equipping you. He may use your story to minister to someone else in ways you cannot yet imagine. Trust Him, lean on Him, and when He calls you to go, be willing to step out in faith. Sometimes, we are the ones God has uniquely prepared to be His hands and feet in someone else’s life.
Prayer for the Day
God what are you showing me? What am I going to do about it?
God help me to see one person that I can serve through a kind word, random act of kindness, or simple gift today?
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Read The New Testament In A Year
4 x 6 Plan | Read:Â John 7:14-24 Â &Â Galatians 3:15-29
Then, midway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. The people were surprised when they heard him. “How does he know so much when he hasn’t been trained?” they asked. So Jesus told them, “My message is not my own; it comes from God who sent me. Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether my teaching is from God or is merely my own. Those who speak for themselves want glory only for themselves, but a person who seeks to honor the one who sent him speaks truth, not lies. Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys it! In fact, you are trying to kill me.” The crowd replied, “You’re demon possessed! Who’s trying to kill you?” Jesus replied, “I did one miracle on the Sabbath, and you were amazed. But you work on the Sabbath, too, when you obey Moses’ law of circumcision. (Actually, this tradition of circumcision began with the patriarchs, long before the law of Moses.) For if the correct time for circumcising your son falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it so as not to break the law of Moses. So why should you be angry with me for healing a man on the Sabbath? Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly.”  John 7:14-24
Dear brothers and sisters, here’s an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or amend an irrevocable agreement, so it is in this case. God gave the promises to Abraham and his child. And notice that the Scripture doesn’t say “to his children,” as if it meant many descendants. Rather, it says “to his child”—and that, of course, means Christ. This is what I am trying to say: The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled 430 years later when God gave the law to Moses. God would be breaking his promise. For if the inheritance could be received by keeping the law, then it would not be the result of accepting God’s promise. But God graciously gave it to Abraham as a promise. Why, then, was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child who was promised. God gave his law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people. Now a mediator is helpful if more than one party must reach an agreement. But God, who is one, did not use a mediator when he gave his promise to Abraham. Is there a conflict, then, between God’s law and God’s promises? Absolutely not! If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it. But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ. Before the way of faith in Christ was available to us, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed. Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith. And now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian. For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you. Galatians 3:15-29