Bread of Life - - A Daily Devotion from The Lutheran Spokesman.

“For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:33

Today’s Bible Reading

Job expresses the hopelessness of his situation.

BibleGateway: Job 10 ESV Text: Job 10 Job 10 (Listen) Job Continues: A Plea to God 10:1 “I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.3 Does it seem good to you…

Job expresses the hopelessness of his situation.

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November 3, 2026October 16, 2026

Job is unable to repair his relationship with the Lord. He needs a Mediator.

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November 2, 2026October 16, 2026

BibleGateway: Job 9 ESV Text: Job 9 Job 9 (Listen) Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter 9:1 Then Job answered and said: 2 “Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the…

We trust not in ourselves, or in our money and goods, or in other people, or in anything else in this fallen world. Our trust is in the Lord Who has created, redeemed, and sanctified us!

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October 31, 2026September 17, 2026

BibleGateway: Psalm 115 ESV Text: Psalm 115 Psalm 115 (Listen) To Your Name Give Glory 115:1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love…

Nehemiah continues working to reform the people of Judah according to the law of Moses.

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October 30, 2026September 17, 2026

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 13 ESV Text: Nehemiah 13 Nehemiah 13 (Listen) Nehemiah’s Final Reforms 13:1 On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written…

Nehemiah lists priests and Levites who have come to Jerusalem, beginning with those who arrived with Zerubbabel and Jeshua about a century earlier (compare Ezra 2). The Judeans dedicate the wall of Jerusalem and organize the men who are to serve at the temple.

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October 29, 2026September 17, 2026

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 12 ESV Text: Nehemiah 12 Nehemiah 12 (Listen) Priests and Levites 12:1 These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, 2 Amariah,…

For the sake of security and in order for the reconstruction of Jerusalem to continue, one out of every ten Judeans agrees to live in Jerusalem.

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October 28, 2026September 17, 2026

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 11 ESV Text: Nehemiah 11 Nehemiah 11 (Listen) The Leaders in Jerusalem 11:1 Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out…

The people dedicate themselves to obeying the Law of the Lord and to serving Him faithfully.

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October 27, 2026September 17, 2026

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 10 ESV Text: Nehemiah 10 Nehemiah 10 (Listen) The People Who Sealed the Covenant 10:1 “On the seals are the names of1 Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah, 2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 3 Pashhur,…

The Judeans confess their sin and receive mercy from the Lord.

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October 26, 2026September 17, 2026

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 9 ESV Text: Nehemiah 9 Nehemiah 9 (Listen) The People of Israel Confess Their Sin 9:1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in…

Ezra teaches the Word of the Lord to the Judeans. The Judeans sanctify the day as a holy day. The Judeans observe the Feast of Booths.

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October 24, 2026September 17, 2026

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 8 ESV Text: Nehemiah 8 Nehemiah 8 (Listen) Ezra Reads the Law 8:1 And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe…

Nehemiah appoints faithful leaders to ensure that the work of reconstruction continues to progress. Nehemiah records the returned exiles by their genealogy.

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October 23, 2026September 17, 2026

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 7 ESV Text: Nehemiah 7 Nehemiah 7 (Listen) 7:1 Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,…

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