Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our Reading titled, A Creator We Can Trust, was written by Monica LaRose.

The Monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most widely known literary characters,

captivating our cultural imagination. But close readers of the beloved novel know that a strong case

can be made that Shelley actually portrays Victor Frankenstein, the delusional scientist who

created the creature as the real

monster. After creating an intelligent creature, Victor denies him any guidance, companionship,

or hope of happiness, seemingly guaranteeing the creature's descent into desperation and rage.

Confronting Victor, the creature laments,

You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph. Scripture reveals how different the true creator of all things is with unchanging, tireless love for his creation.

God didn't create on a whim, but out of love created a beautiful, very good world.

And even when humanity turned from him to choose monstrous evil instead,

God's commitment too and love for humanity didn't change. As Jesus explained to Nicodemus, God's love for His creation was so great he was willing

to give even what was most dear to Him, his one and only Son, that the world might

be saved.

Jesus sacrificed Himself, bearing the consequences of our sin,

so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. We have a creator we can trust

with our hearts and lives.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from John chapter 3,

verses 10 through 17.

You are Israel's teacher, said Jesus, and do you not understand these things?

Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know,

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