SEEING UPSIDE DOWN - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2026

Our Daily Bread - Friday, October 15, 2016
by RBC Ministries

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SEEING UPSIDE DOWN

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Matthew

But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
-Matthew 9:12

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Isaiah 45-46
1 Thessalonians 3

In India, I worshipped among leprosy patients. Most of the medical advances in the treatment of leprosy came about as a result of missionary doctors, who were willing to live among patients and risk exposure to the dreaded disease. As a result, churches thrive in most major leprosy centres. In Myanmar, I visited homes for AIDS orphans, where Christian volunteers try to replace parental affection the disease has stolen away. The most rousing church services I have attended took place in Chile and Peru, in the bowels of a federal prison. Among the lowly, the wretched, the downtrodden - the rejected of this world - God's kingdom takes root.
Taking God's assignment seriously means that we must learn to look at the world upside down as Jesus did. Instead of seeking out people with resources who can do us favours, we look for people with few resources. Instead of the strong, we find the weak; instead of the healthy, the sick. Instead of the spiritual, the sinful. Is this not how God reconciles the world to Himself? "It is not the healthy who needs a doctor, but the sickI have not come to call the righteous, but sinners" (Matthew 9:12-13 NIV).
To gain a new perspective, look at the world upside down as Jesus did. - Philip Yancey
We know, Jesus, that You sought the lowly ones who were rejected by others. We want to be like You. Open our eyes and show us how. We long to be used by You to bless others.

Do you see a needy world through the eyes of Jesus?

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