Devotional

The daily devotional published Monday-Friday by Medford UMC. Click on the devotional title to read that day’s post.

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Tue Feb 25-Caught by Contentment

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Anxiety thrives on uncertainty—our need to control outcomes, to secure our future, to make sure everything turns out “just right.” Yet Jesus calls us to a different way of living. His way is marked by trust rather than fear. He calls us to rest in contentment now rather than continually chasing the thing that we perceive will lead to contentment tomorrow.

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Thu Feb 20-Shake the Dust Off Our Feet

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The way I read today’s passage it seems to me that immediately after being called by Jesus, the twelve disciples are sent out to the mission field. Their mission was urgent and they didn’t have time to waste. Their mission was also not easy.

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Wed Feb 19-Gathering Leftovers

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Imagine you are one of Jesus’ disciples and you see a large crowd of people headed your way, tired and hungry. Jesus says to you, “Where will you buy food to feed these people?” In response, most of us would think that feeding upwards to fifteen thousand men, women and children on the outskirts of a town would be an impossible task.

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Tue. Feb. 18th – Ashley the Imposter

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I was chosen to speak at a national conference for character education. I still can’t believe I did that. I still can’t believe I get to put that in my resume. As I write this, I still feel like I only got there by luck and people in the audience were just being polite.

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Mon Feb 17-God Is Always With Us

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When Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, Potiphar, Pharaoh’s chief officer, the commander of the royal guard and an Egyptian, purchased him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. 2 The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man and served in his Egyptian master’s household.

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Fri Feb 14-Who Do People Say I Am?

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If you took a survey of people on the street today, you may get similar responses to what the disciples told Jesus that others were saying about him centuries ago. Some would say he was a prophet, others a moral teacher, others a mythical person, and others would say that he was and is the Son of God.

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Thu Feb 13-Identity Received, Not Achieved

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Growing up, I wanted to be a thousand things: a teacher, a marine biologist, a doctor, a singer, an astronaut. But what all those very different dreams had in common was that regardless of occupation, I wanted to be the BEST.  In whatever I was doing, I wanted to achieve maximum greatness. If I’m honest, sometimes I still do.

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