Grandmother Research | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | May 18, 2023
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🗓️ 18 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. The reading for today titled |
| 0:11.6 | Grandmother Research was written by Kenneth Peterson. Researchers at Emory University used MRI scans to study the brains of grandmothers. |
| 0:23.6 | They measured empathetic responses to images that included their own grandchild, their own |
| 0:29.6 | adult child, and one anonymous child. |
| 0:32.6 | The study showed that grandmothers have a higher empathy toward their own grandchild than even their own |
| 0:38.7 | adult child. This is attributed to what they call the cute factor, their own grandchild being |
| 0:45.6 | more adorable than the adult. Before we say, well, duh, we might consider the words of James |
| 0:52.3 | Rilling, who conducted the study. If their grandchild |
| 0:55.9 | is smiling, the grandmother is feeling the child's joy, and if their grandchild is crying, |
| 1:02.0 | they're feeling the child's pain and distress. The prophet Zefaniah paints an MRI image of |
| 1:08.7 | God's feelings as he looks upon his people. |
| 1:12.0 | In Zefaniah chapter 3, he writes, |
| 1:14.8 | He will take great delight in you. |
| 1:16.8 | In his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. |
| 1:20.7 | Some translate this to say, |
| 1:22.6 | You will make his heart full of joy, and he will sing loudly. |
| 1:26.9 | Like an empathetic grandmother, God feels our pain. |
| 1:31.6 | In all their distress, he too was distressed, says Isaiah 63, verse 9, and he feels our joy. |
| 1:40.1 | Psalm 149, 4 says, The Lord takes delight in his people. |
| 1:45.8 | When we feel discouraged, it's good to remember that God has real feelings for us. |
| 1:52.1 | He's not a cold, far away God, but one who loves and delights in us. |
| 1:58.4 | It's time to draw close to him, feel his smile, and listen to his singing. |
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