Saving Lives - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2025

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I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing.
Acts 20:19

Today's Scripture & Insight : Acts 20:17-24

Adolfo Kaminsky knew how to remove indelible ink from paper. As a member of the anti-Nazi resistance in France, he altered identification cards to save hundreds from concentration camps. Once he was given three days to forge nine hundred birth and baptismal certificates and ration cards for three hundred Jewish children. He worked two straight days without sleep, telling himself, “In one hour I can make thirty false papers. If I sleep for an hour thirty people will die.”

The apostle Paul felt a similar urgency. He reminded the church in Ephesus how he’d “served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing” (Acts 20:19). Paul said, “I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you” (v. 20). This urgency compelled him to share with everyone the necessity of repentance and faith in Jesus (v. 21). Now he was sailing back to Jerusalem, eager to “finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus [had] given [him]—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace” (v. 24).

Paul couldn’t save people. Only God does that. But he could tell them God’s good news about Jesus, the only “name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

Who is the Holy Spirit bringing to your mind today? Ask the Lord how you might share His good news with them.

By: Mike Wittmer

Reflect & Pray
Who do you know who needs to hear “the good news of God’s grace”? How can you intentionally pray for opportunities to share it with them?

Dear Jesus, open my heart to those who need You. Give me opportunities to tell them of Your love.