AN ORDINARY DAY - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2026

Our Daily Bread - Monday, January 25, 2016
by RBC Ministries

Details

AN ORDINARY DAY

READ:

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
-Matthew 24:42

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Exodus 12-13
Matthew 16

While exploring a museum exhibit titled "A Day in Pompeii," I was struck by the repeated theme that August 24, AD 79 began as an ordinary day. People were going about their daily business in homes, in markets, and at the port of this prosperous Roman town of 20,000 people. At 8 a.m., a series of small emissions were seen coming from nearby Mount Vesuvius, followed by a violent eruption in the afternoon. In less than 24 hours, Pompeii and many of its people lay buried under a thick layer of volcanic ash. Unexpected.
Jesus told His followers that He would return on a day when people were going about their businesses, sharing meals, and having weddings, with no idea of what was about to happen. "As in the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be" (Matthew 24:37).
The Lord's purpose was to urge the disciples to be watchful and prepared: "Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect" (v.44).
What surprising joy it would be to welcome our Saviour on this ordinary day! - David MacCasland
Faithful and true would He find us here,
If He should come today?
Watching in gladness and not in fear,
If He should come today?
Watch for the time is drawing nigh,
What if it were today? - Morris

Perhaps today!

More From Our Daily Devotional Archives

The only true attitude for the Christian is that of dependence...

The LORD is near
for Saturday, December 14, 2013
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

The only true attitude for the Christian is that of dependence...

I am come from heaven, not that I should do My will, but the will of Him that has sent Me.
(John 6:38)

The only true attitude for the Christian is that of dependence. The moment we get off the ground of dependence on God we are sure to come to grief. This is true both individually...More

The Word for today
for Tuesday, January 7, 2014
by Bob and Debby Gass

Are You Feeling Insecure? (3)

The Lordsaid to me, "Now, I have put my words in your mouth." '
Jeremiah 1:9 NIV

The people God calls usually start out feeling ill-equipped and insecure. Indeed, if you jumped and said, No problem, Lord, I can handle that,' He wouldn't call you at all. You say, but I've made so many...More

Our Daily Manna
for Saturday, August 15, 2015
by Dr Chris Kwakpovwe

CO-PILOT USED SKY DEVIL' LOG IN

Be reminded that evidence from the cockpit voice recorder suggests that Mr. Andreas Lubitz, 27, the killer co-pilot of GERMAN WINGS FLIGHT 9525 locked the cock pit door when Capt Patrick Sondenheimer, 34, also of Dusseldorf city, left for a toilet break and used controls to override the entry code, crashing the plane...More

Open Heavens
for Sunday, August 13, 2017
by Pastor E.A Adeboye

CAPTIVES OF THE MIGHTY

Read:
declared that He came to set the captives...More