Hey there, welcome to this edition of the Our Daily Bread Devotional.

It's written by Marte Dahan, and he titled it Unseen Wonder.

In the twilight of her years, Mrs. Goodrich's thoughts came in and out of focus, along with memories

of a challenging and grace-filled life. Sitting by a window overlooking the waters of Michigan's

Grand Traverse Bay, she reached for her notepad. In words, she soon wouldn't recognize as her own, she wrote,

Here I am in my favorite chair, with my feet on the sill, and my heart in the air. The sun struck

waves on the water below, in constant motion, to where? I don't know. But thank you, dear Father above, for your

innumerable gifts and your undying love. It always amazes me, how can it be, that I'm so in love,

with one I can't see? The Apostle Peter acknowledged such wonder. He had seen Jesus with his own

eyes, but those who would read his letter had not. Though you have not seen him, you believe in him,

and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, he wrote in 1st Peter

1. We love Jesus not because we are commanded to, but because, with the help of the Spirit,

we begin to see how much he loves us.

It's more than hearing that he cares for people like us.

It's experiencing for ourselves the promise of Christ to make the wonder of his unseen presence and spirit real to us at every stage of life.

Now let's join together in hearing God's Word.

This is today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading.

It's taken from 1st Peter, chapter 1, verse 3 through 9.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In His great mercy,

he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade.

This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who, through faith, are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

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