Comfort on Doorframes | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | March 9, 2023
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🗓️ 9 March 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.3 | Our reading, titled Comfort on Door Frames, was written by Katira Patton. |
| 0:14.6 | As I scanned my social media feed in the aftermath of the 2016 flood in southern Louisiana, |
| 0:20.7 | I came across a friend's post. After realizing |
| 0:23.8 | her home would have to be gutted and rebuilt, my friend's mom encouraged her to look for God, |
| 0:29.5 | even in the heart-wrenching work of cleaning up. My friend later posted pictures of Bible verses |
| 0:35.0 | she'd uncovered on the exposed door frames of the home. |
| 0:38.9 | Apparently, written at the time the home had been built. |
| 0:42.9 | Reading the scriptures on the wooden planks gave her comfort. |
| 0:47.1 | The tradition of writing Bible verses on door frames may stem from God's command to Israel. |
| 0:52.6 | God instructed the Israelites to post his commands on door |
| 0:56.0 | frames as a way of remembering who he is. By writing the commandments on their hearts, teaching them to their |
| 1:02.3 | children, using symbols and other means to recall what God commands, and placing the words on doorframes |
| 1:09.1 | and entryways, the Israelites had constant reminders of God's words. |
| 1:14.6 | They were encouraged to never forget what he had said or their covenant with him. |
| 1:20.3 | Displaying God's words in our homes, as well as planting their meaning in our hearts, |
| 1:25.0 | can help us to build a foundation that relies on his faithfulness |
| 1:29.3 | as revealed in scripture. And he can use those words to bring us comfort, even in the |
| 1:36.3 | midst of tragedy or heart-wrenching loss. |
| 1:44.1 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Deuteronomy chapter 6 verses 4 through 9. |
| 1:50.7 | Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God. The Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart |
| 1:58.0 | and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments |
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