Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. I'm Tom Felton and I titled Today's

Reading, Grace and Change. The crime was shocking, and the man who committed it was sentenced to life in prison.

In the years that followed, the man in solitary confinement,

began a process of mental and spiritual healing.

It led to repentance and restored relationship with Jesus.

These days, he's been allowed limited interactions with other inmates,

and by God's grace, through his witness some

fellow prisoners have received Christ's Savior, finding forgiveness in him.

Moses, though now recognized as a great man of faith, also committed a shocking crime.

After he witnessed an Egyptian beating a Hebrew in Exodus 2, he looked this way

and that and killed the Egyptian. Despite this sin, God and His grace wasn't done with his

imperfect servant. Later, he chose Moses to free his people from their oppression. In Romans 514 we read,

Death reign from the time of Adam to the time of Moses,

even over those who did not sin by breaking a command.

But in the following verses,

Paul states that God's grace makes it possible for us,

regardless of our past sins, to be changed and

made right with Him. We might think that what we've done disqualifies us from knowing God's

forgiveness and being used for His honor, but because of His grace, in Jesus, we can be changed

and set free to help others be changed for eternity.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Exodus chapter 2, verses 11 through 15.

One day after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched

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