Calling Out to God | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | January 20, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, and welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.3 | Our reading titled, Calling Out to God, was written by John Blaze. |
| 0:14.5 | In his book, Adopted for Life, Dr. Russell Moore describes his family's trip to an orphanage to adopt a child. As they |
| 0:22.6 | entered the nursery, the silence was startling. The babies in the cribs never cried, and it |
| 0:29.6 | wasn't because they never needed anything, but because they'd learned that no one cared enough |
| 0:35.6 | to answer. My heart ached as I read those words. |
| 0:40.6 | I remember countless nights when our children were small. |
| 0:44.3 | My wife and I would be sound asleep, only to be startled awake by their cries. |
| 0:49.3 | Daddy, I'm sick. |
| 0:51.0 | Or, mommy, I'm scared. |
| 0:53.3 | One of us would spring into action and make our way to their |
| 0:56.4 | bedroom to do our best to comfort and care for them. Our love for our children gave them reason |
| 1:03.1 | to call for our help. An overwhelming number of Psalms are cries or laments to God. Israel brought their laments to him on the basis of |
| 1:13.6 | his personal relationship with them. These were a people God had called his firstborn, and they |
| 1:19.7 | were asking their father to act accordingly. Such honest trust is seen in Psalm 25. Turn to me and be gracious to me. |
| 1:29.7 | Free me from my anguish. |
| 1:32.2 | Children who are confident of the love of a caregiver do cry. |
| 1:37.3 | As believers in Jesus, children of God, |
| 1:40.6 | he's given us reason to call on him. |
| 1:44.0 | He hears and cares because of his great love. |
| 1:53.3 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Psalm 25 verses 16 through 22. |
| 2:00.6 | Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. |
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