Why Me, God? | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 30, 2024
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:08.9 | Our Reading titled Why Me God was written by Po Fong Chia. |
| 0:14.9 | Jim has been battling a motor neuron disease for more than a year. |
| 0:19.0 | The neurons and his muscles are breaking down and his muscles are wasting away. |
| 0:24.5 | He's lost his fine motor skills and is losing his ability to control his limbs. |
| 0:30.1 | He can no longer button his shirt or tie his shoelaces and using a pair of chopsticks |
| 0:35.7 | has become impossible. |
| 0:40.2 | Jim struggles with his situation and asks, why is God allowing this to happen? Why me? He's in good company with many other believers in |
| 0:48.3 | Jesus who have brought their questions to God. In Psalm 13, David cries out, how long, Lord. Will you forget me forever? |
| 0:58.2 | How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts, and day |
| 1:03.5 | after day have sorrow in my heart? We too can take our confusion and questions to God. |
| 1:10.0 | He understands when we cry out, how long and why. |
| 1:14.0 | His ultimate answer is given to us in Jesus and his triumph over sin and death. |
| 1:20.2 | As we look at the cross and the empty tomb, we gain confidence to trust in God's unfailing |
| 1:25.7 | love and rejoice in his salvation. Even in the darkest nights, |
| 1:30.9 | we can sing the Lord's praise, for he has been good to us. Through our faith in Christ, |
| 1:36.9 | he's forgiven our sins, adopted us as his children, and is accomplishing his eternal, |
| 1:43.1 | good purpose in our lives. |
| 1:50.2 | Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is Psalm 13. |
| 1:55.1 | How long, Lord, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? |
| 2:09.6 | Look on me and answer, Lord my God! Give light to my eyes or I will sleep in death and my enemy will say I have overcome him |
| 2:19.4 | and my foes will rejoice when I fall. |
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