At the beginning of the Victorian Era in Ireland there... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 45:22

At the beginning of the Victorian Era in Ireland there lives a farm labourer, Andrew Dunn, who sincerely seeks peace with God. A priest in charge of him cannot give him satisfactory answers to his questions.

Then Andrew receives a New Testament as a gift. Inquisitive, he begins to read it. When he comes to the passage in Luke 15 where the prodigal son says, "I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'" he falls to his knees, applies this Bible passage to himself, and earnestly cries out to God for forgiveness. When he finishes his prayer, his first glance falls on the words, "But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him" (Luke 15:20). And another Bible word does not let him go: "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7).

The fact that God, the Father, waits for people who search themselves and repent, and even rushes to meet them, touches Andrew deeply. He entrusts himself to God's mercy and, at the same moment, experiences the peace he had been seeking for so long.

From now on, the gospel spreads rapidly in Andrew's neighbourhood, first in his own family. Then a neighbour known to be a thug who wants to attack Andrew becomes his best friend and brother in the faith. Subsequently, another twelve families find faith in the Lord Jesus and in turn spread many blessings in their neighbourhoods.

This true story shows the power God's Word has to change people's lives. And it still has the same power today.

Today's reading: Numbers 14:11-25 · Matthew 9:27-38