Never Too Far | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | March 7, 2023
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🗓️ 7 March 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.8 | Our reading today titled Never Too Far, was written by Leslie Coe. |
| 0:15.4 | Raj had trusted Jesus as his Savior in his youth, but soon afterward, he drifted from the faith |
| 0:22.8 | and led a life apart from God. Then one day he made the decision to renew his relationship with |
| 0:29.2 | Jesus and go back to church, only to be scolded by a woman who berated him for being absent for all |
| 0:35.8 | these years. The scolding added to Raj's sense of |
| 0:39.6 | shame and guilt for his years of drifting. Am I beyond hope, he wondered? Then he recalled how |
| 0:46.4 | Christ had restored Simon Peter, even though he had denied him. Whatever scolding Peter |
| 0:52.6 | might have expected, all he received was forgiveness and |
| 0:56.8 | restoration. Jesus didn't even mention Peter's denial, but instead gave him a chance to |
| 1:02.9 | reaffirm his love for Christ and take care of his followers. Jesus's words before Peter |
| 1:09.0 | disowned him were being fulfilled when he said in Luke |
| 1:11.9 | 22, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. |
| 1:17.5 | Raj asked God for that same forgiveness and restoration, and today he's not only walking |
| 1:23.2 | closely with Jesus, but serving in a church and supporting other believers as well. |
| 1:29.0 | No matter how far we've strayed from God, he's always ready not only to forgive us and welcome |
| 1:34.5 | us back, but also to restore us so that we can love, serve, and glorify him. We're never |
| 1:41.4 | too far from God. His loving arms are wide open. |
| 1:50.7 | Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from the Gospel of Luke, |
| 1:55.9 | chapter 22, verses 31 through 34, and verses 54 through 62. |
| 2:04.0 | Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat, but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail, and when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. |
| 2:16.9 | But he replied, |
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