Mid-week Devotional:
Week of December 8, 2025
This week we continue our series of mid-week devotionals that focus on living out our daily lives with thankfulness and praise to God our creator and redeemer.
Each morning, I read through the latest updates on what is happening around the world. Here and there I read glimpses of love, kindness, and peace but much of what I read is filled with hatred, anger, and violence.
My shoulders sag. Tears come and my heart breaks for the loss of lives, the loss of innocence, and the loss of compassion within humanity.
Each morning, I turn to God’s holy word seeking how God is calling me to respond.
Hear the Word of God as recorded in the Old Testament book of Daniel, Daniel 2:20-23a.
“20 Daniel said: ‘Blessed be the name of God from age to age, for wisdom and power are his. 21 He changes times and season, deposes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. 22 He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with him. 23 To you, O God of my ancestors, I give thanks and praise...”
This is God’s word for God’s people. Thanks be to God. AMEN.
Each morning, I give thanks for God’s holy word for it reminds me that God has been present before the beginning of time and continues to be. God’s holy word reminds me to lift up thanks and praise to God for another day of life.
God’s holy word is more than words of reminding.
God’s holy word calls each to respond, you and I.
God’s holy word calls you and I to respond to the needs of others with more than tears.
You and I are each called to respond to those in need through all our prayers, all our words, and all our actions giving thanks and praise to God our creator and redeemer.
Peace be with you.
AMEN