Astray at night - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

Knock, and it will be opened to you.

I am the door of the sheep.
Matthew 7: 7; John 10: 7.

Astray at night
My father liked to tell us of an experience of his childhood. It happened one winter's night on the plateau of the Ardèche in France. There had been heavy snowfalls all day, and the family farm was totally isolated. At night the wind had risen and caused snowdrifts that wiped out any footsteps, so that travelling was perilous.

Towards midnight there was a knock on the door. It was a man from the neighbouring village who had lost his way. When he recognised where he was, he refrained from entering, judging that he could easily find his way back home only a few hundred metres away.

Everyone went to bed. However, at about three o'clock my grandfather had to get up to open the door to the same neighbour who had been going round in circles in the blizzard and hadn't progressed one step in the right direction. He was invited in to recover and sleep until daybreak.

This true story, which could have had a tragic end, makes me think of all who have heard the gospel message during their life and have paid no attention to it. Imagining themselves able to obtain salvation by their own means, they refused God's free offer of grace and continued on their pathway at the risk of being finally lost.

Listen carefully to what God says: .


Today‘s reading: 2 Samuel 22: 20 - 32 · John 1: 19 - 28