We're glad you could join us for today's encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional.

Our reading is titled Sweater Than Honey, and it was written by Amy Boucher Pie.

On Chicago Day, in October 1893, the city's theaters shut down because the owners figured

everyone would be attending the World's Fair. Over 700,000 people went, but Dwight Moody

wanted to fill a music hall at the other end of Chicago with preaching and teaching. His friend, R.A. Tori, was skeptical

that Moody could draw a crowd on the same day as the fair. But by God's grace, he did. As Tori later

concluded, the crowds came because Moody knew the one book that this old world most longs to know,

the Bible.

Tori longed for others to love the Bible as Moody did, reading it regularly with dedication

and passion.

God through his spirit brought people back to himself at the end of the 19th century

in Chicago, and he continues to speak today. We can echo the psalmist's love for God in his scriptures

as he exclaims in Psalm 119, how sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.

For the psalmist, God's messages of grace and truth acted as a light for his path, a lamp

for his feet. How can you grow more in love with the Savior and his message? As we immerse ourselves in

Scripture, God will increase our devotion to Him and guide us, shining his light along the paths we walk.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Psalm 119, verses 97 through 105.

Oh, how I love your law. I meditate on it all day long. Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my

enemies. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. I have more

understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts. I have kept my feet

from every evil path so that I might obey your word. I have not departed from your laws, for you

yourself have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste.

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