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Seeing a Need - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2024

Seeing a Need details logo    Our Daily Bread - Saturday, February 27, 2022
  by RBC Ministries
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Seeing a Need

Bible in a Year: Numbers 17-19, Mark 6:30-56

All the widows stood around [Peter], crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made.
Acts 9:39

Today's Scripture & Insight: Acts 9:36-42

In the last few days of my dad's life, one of the nurses dropped by his room and asked me if she could give him a shave. As Rachel gently pulled the razor across his face, she explained, "Older men of his generation like to have a neat shave every day." Rachel had seen a need and acted on her instinct to show kindness, dignity, and respect to someone. The tender care she provided reminded me of my friend Julie who still paints her elderly mother's nails because it's important to her mom that she "look pretty."

Acts 9 tells us about a disciple named Dorcas (also known as Tabitha) who showed kindness by providing handmade clothing for the poor (vv. 36, 39). When she died, her room was filled with friends who tearfully mourned this kind woman who loved helping others.

But Dorcas' story didn't end there. When Peter was brought to where her body lay, he knelt and prayed. In God's power, he called her by name, saying, "Tabitha, get up" (v. 40). Amazingly, Dorcas opened her eyes and rose to her feet. When her friends realized she was alive, word spread quickly through the town and "many people believed in the Lord" (v. 42).

And how did Dorcas spend the next day of her life? Probably exactly as she had before—seeing the needs of people and filling them.

By: Cindy Hess Kasper

Reflect & Pray
Whom do you know that always seems to find ways to help others? What can you do to become more aware of others' needs?

Father, open my eyes each day to see the hurting and needy people around me. Open my heart to do what I can to show them what God's love looks like.
Seeing a Need





 

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