Today’s Reading:
Read Luke 14-15
Start today’s reading time out with a game of hide and seek. Pick a place in your home to hide the Bible. Challenge your family to find the Bible. Rejoice when the Bible is found. Celebrate that what once was lost is now found!
In our reading today, Jesus challenged the religious leaders and their understanding of the law. He used three stories to demonstrate that He had come for everyone, and that God cared about the salvation of everyone, not just the religious people.
Jesus used parables again in today’s reading. Remember parables were short stories that Jesus told that had a special meaning to them. Jesus talked about a shepherd who took care of 100 sheep but sought after the one sheep that got lost. Jesus was teaching that God cared about everyone! Jesus also taught about a woman who lost a coin and when she found it there was great rejoicing. Again, God would rejoice over just one person coming to know Him. Jesus also told a story of a son who made choices that separated him from his father. When the son realized he had been wrong and he returned to his father, the father welcomed him back and rejoiced that what once was lost had now been found.
Application/Prayer:
Celebrate that Jesus came for everyone. Because of that, we know that Jesus paid the price for all of our sins and if we accept that gift, we don’t have to be separated from Him. If you have a relationship with Jesus already, thank God that even though you were once lost you are now found! Spend some time as a family talking about what it means to have a relationship with Jesus.
Using the daily reading prompts from George H. Guthrie’s Read the Bible for Life, here’s how to use this devotional:
- Bring your Bible! Your kids need to see that everything you are reading to them or learning about comes from an actual Bible!
- Each day starts with a reading prompt. Read the selection as a family. If your kids are readers, encourage them to read along with you.
- After you’ve read the passage, read the short devotional thought that goes along with each passage.
- Prayer and application are important any time we read God’s word! After each devotional, there is a challenge to help apply what your family has read that day.
- There is a reading for six days of the week. The last reading of the week is a Gospel Conversation Prompt to help you connect the reading from the week with God’s plan for salvation.
Other Resources:
October memory verse coloring sheet
October Fill-in the blank activity