Hello there. Welcome to today's encouragement from your friends at Our Daily Bread. The devotional for today titled Remembering to Praise was written by James Banks. When our congregation built our first building, people wrote thankful reminders on the wall studs and concrete floors before the interior of the building was finished.

Pull back the drywall from the studs, and you'll find them there.

Verse after verse from scripture, written beside prayers of praise like,

You are so good, God.

We left them there as a witness to future generations that regardless of our challenges,

God had been kind and taken care of us.

We need to remember what God has done for us and tell others about it.

Isaiah exemplified this when he

wrote in Isaiah 63, I will tell of the kindnesses of the Lord, the deeds for which he is to be praised,

according to all the Lord has done for us. Later, the prophet also recounts God's compassion

for his people throughout history, even telling

how, in all their distress, he too was distressed.

But if you keep reading the chapter, you'll notice Israel is again in a time of trouble,

and the prophet longs for God's intervention.

Remembering God's past kindnesses helps when times are hard.

Challenging seasons come and go, but his faithful character never changes.

As we turn to him with grateful hearts and remembrance of all he's done,

we discover afresh that he's always worthy

of our praise.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Isaiah, chapter 63, verses 7 through 9. I will tell of the kindnesses of the Lord,

the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the Lord has done for us. Yes, the many

good things he has done for Israel, according to his compassion and many kindnesses.

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