Daily Devotion for April 10, 2025

Devotion:

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Read John 12:20-26.

It is spring and plants, bushes, and flowers are growing and multiplying. Did you know that if you plant a clove of garlic in late fall it will produce a new plant in the summer that produces seven or eight cloves of garlic the next summer. That's a good increase.

Jesus used wheat as an example of amazing multiplication. He said one kernel produces many seeds. Today we know that one seed of wheat planted in the ground can yield 20-25 kernels of new wheat. Jesus was using this to make a point. Just as a wheat seed falls to the ground and dies and then produces many seeds, his own death and resurrection would produce new life in a multitude of followers.

We can trust in his promise of multiplication if we follow him in dying to ourselves and serving others out of the abundance of our new life in him. God desires us to study his word and live our lives following Jesus’ example. We are to tell others the good news of Jesus Christ, love our neighbors, and be assured of the eternal life we can have. 

Personal Worship Option:

Father, thank you for sending your son to die and rise, so that we can have an everlasting life. Inspire and ­strengthen us to follow Jesus’ life and serve others. Amen.