Give While We Live - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2026

Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me also springs of water. Joshua 15:19

Today's Scripture
Joshua 15:13-19

Today's Devotion
With his team winning comfortably, Philadelphia Eagles’ superstar football player Saquon Barkley rested on the bench. There was no need for him to continue playing. Then his coach approached and told him he was close to breaking a record. Would he like to go back in? “I’m good,” said Barkley. “I’d rather see the young boys eat.” Barkley chose to give up a record so his young teammates could get playing time.

When Israel inhabited the promised land, Caleb was one of only two Israelites to survive the exodus all the way from Egypt (see Numbers 14:30). He’d enjoyed military success and had driven out an enemy nation (Joshua 15:14). Now, as he faced a Canaanite stronghold, he said, “I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher” (v. 16). Othniel did so, and Aksah married him. Caleb gave them land in the Negev desert (v. 19), but Aksah approached her father with a request. “Do me a special favor,” she said. “Give me also springs of water” (v. 19).

For four decades, Caleb had toiled to get to the promised land. Still in good health (14:10-11), he could have kept the valuable springs for himself. But he didn’t.

Accumulating things for ourselves never means as much as we expect it to. Personal records get broken. Our possessions go to others. Let’s give while we live. As Saquon Barkley said, “[Let] the young boys eat.”

Reflect & Pray
What have others given to you? What has God given you that you might share with others?

Generous Father, please help me wisely share what You’ve given me.

Today's Insights
In Joshua 15:13-19, we read about Caleb’s generosity when he gave away the land with valuable springs. Generosity is a recurring theme throughout the Bible and was one of the refreshing attributes of the early believers in Jesus. Their embrace of Christ and His teaching was reflected in their openhandedness. Luke says, “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. . . . God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them” (Acts 4:32-34). The early church lived together as a community which factored into how they functioned, but they also demonstrated their love for Jesus by caring for the needs of others. Today, we can ask God to give us compassion for others and show us how to be generous with what He’s given us.

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