I'm Just the Driver | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | August 4, 2024
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🗓️ 4 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Our reading titled, I'm Just the Driver, was written by Adam R. Holes. |
| 0:14.2 | Dad, can I spend the night with my friend? My daughter asked, getting into the car after practice. |
| 0:19.7 | Honey, you know the answer. I'm just the |
| 0:22.5 | driver. I don't know what's happening. Let's talk with mom. I'm just the driver has become a joke in |
| 0:28.6 | our home. Daily, I ask my organized wife where I need to be, when, and whom I'm taking where. With three |
| 0:35.6 | teens, my moonlighting as a taxi driver sometimes feels like a second job. |
| 0:40.6 | Often, I don't know what I don't know, so I have to check in with the master calendar keeper. |
| 0:46.5 | In Matthew 8, Jesus encountered a man who also knew something about taking and giving instruction, |
| 0:52.8 | a Roman centurion. This man understood that Jesus had the |
| 0:57.1 | authority to heal, just as the centurion had the authority to issue commands to those under him. |
| 1:03.7 | The man said to Jesus, just say the word, and my servant will be healed, for I myself am a man under |
| 1:10.4 | authority with soldiers under me. |
| 1:13.5 | Christ commended the man's faith, amazed that he understood what his authority looked like in action. |
| 1:20.3 | So what about us? What does it look like to trust Jesus with our daily assignments from him? |
| 1:27.1 | Because even if we think we're just the driver, |
| 1:30.7 | each assignment has kingdom meaning and purpose. |
| 1:38.9 | The scripture reading for today's Our Daily Bread Devotional |
| 1:41.8 | is from Matthew chapter 8 verses 5 through 13. |
| 1:46.4 | When Jesus had entered Copernium, a centurion came to him asking for help. Lord, he said, |
| 1:53.5 | my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly. Jesus said to him, shall I come and heal him? |
| 2:20.4 | The centurion replied, Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof, but just say the word and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one go, and he goes, and that one one come and he comes. I say to my servant, do this, and he does it. When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following |
| 2:27.9 | him, truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. I say to you that many will come from the |
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