Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled The Reboot of Grace was written by Adam R. Holes.

Over the last several decades, a new word has entered our movie vocabulary, reboot.

In cinematic parlance, a reboot takes an old story and jump starts it. Some reboots retell a familiar tale, like a superhero story or a fairy tale. Other

reboots take a lesser-known story and retell it in a new way. But in each case, a reboot is a bit like a

do-over. It's a fresh start, a chance to breathe new life into the old. There's another story

that involves reboots, the gospel story. In it, Jesus invites us to his offer of forgiveness, as well as abundant and

eternal life. And in the book of Lamentations, Jeremiah reminds us that God's love for us makes

everyday a reboot of sorts. Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. God's grace invites us to embrace each day

as a fresh opportunity to experience his faithfulness. Whether we're struggling with the effects of our own mistakes or going through other

hardships, God's spirit can breathe forgiveness, new life, and hope into each new day.

Every day is a reboot of sorts, an opportunity to follow the lead of the great director, who is

weaving our story into his bigger one.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Lamentations chapter 3, verses 16 through 33.

He has broken my teeth with gravel. He has trampled me in the dust.

I have been deprived of peace. I have forgotten what prosperity is. So I say, my splendor is gone,

and all that I had hoped from the Lord.

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.

I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.

Yet this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope.

Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed, for his

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