Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

I'm Amy Boucher Pie and I called today's devotional Come and Worship.

As they sang pray songs together in the multi-generational worship service,

many experience joy and peace, but not

a frazzled mother. As she jiggled her baby, who was on the verge of crying, she held

the songbook for her five-year-old while trying to stop her toddler from running off. Then an

older gentleman sitting behind her offered to walk the toddler around the church,

and a young woman motioned that she could hold the songbook for the eldest child. Within two

minutes, the mother's experience was transformed, and she could exhale, close her eyes,

and worship God. God has always intended that all his people worship him,

men and women, old and young, long-time believers and newcomers.

As Moses blessed the tribes of Israel before they entered the promised land in Deuteronomy 31,

he urged them all to meet together, men, women,

and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns, so that they could listen and learn to

fear the Lord your God and to follow his commands. It honors God when we make it possible for his people

to worship him together, no matter our stage of life.

That morning in church, the mother, the older gentleman, and the young woman each experience God's love through giving and receiving.

Perhaps the next time you're at church, you too could either extend God's love through an

offer of help, or you could be the one accepting the act of grace.

The passage from Scripture today is from Deuteronomy, chapter 31, verses 9 through 13.

So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests who carried the

Ark of the Covenant of the Lord and to all the elders of Israel.

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