Daily Bread 5.22.20

By May 22, 2020Daily Bread

Good morning! I hope this day finds you and your family well, and I want you to know that you are in my prayers daily during this difficult time.

I invite you to take a few moments with me to reflect on today’s Upper Room Devotional below — as well as on the theology woven into “It is well with my soul.”

Special thanks to Peggy Graff and her guests for providing this uplifting and inspiring addition to us in her Hymn-a-Day May series. I pray that these paired daily selections will uplift your spirits and feed your soul as much as it does mine.

Today’s Scripture:

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
The Value of a Friend

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help. 11 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone? 12 And though one might prevail against another, two will withstand one. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

The book of Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Scriptures is part of what is called Wisdom Literature in the Bible.  This scripture in one of several that speak to the importance of friendship and how we are dependent on one another for support and help.  In this present time of physical distancing we feel this need for one another even more keenly.  We are better together.

In another wisdom book, Proverbs, there is this piece of wisdom:  “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens a friend.” (Proverbs 27:17)

In this time of physical distancing, how are you valuing and connecting with friends?

Thank you for sharing this early moment of your day with me, with God, and with the words and music that I hope you will carry with you throughout the coming day and night.

I am so grateful for you, for our church, and for the Love that will see us all through this very difficult time. Please stay safe and well and we’ll be together again in spirit tomorrow morning!

Grace and Peace,


Dr. Tim Bruster
Senior Pastor

Here’s more about this passage of scripture via Upper Room devotionals:

BOLD ENCOURAGEMENT

Encourage one another and build each other up.

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