DAILY BRE AD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries)
OCTOBER 25, 2026
READ: Exodus 2 (Focus vs. 1-10)
MEMORY VERSE
“She saw that he was a fine child.” Exodus 2:2
BACKGROUND
The British TV reality show Portrait Artist of the Year pits nine amateur painters against each other in creating portraits of a local celebrity.
The images have to be completed in just four hours, which is condensed into the one-hour program. It’s fascinating to watch the cameras capture each artist’s creation slowly emerging from a blank canvas.
The Bible records the story of creation in Genesis, where God brings life out of the void —a blank canvas. Yet there’s a another “creation story” in Exodus 2—the birth of Moses. This language echoes earlier Genesis accounts.
The mother of Moses “saw that he was a fine child” (Exodus 2:2); this is the Hebrew word tov, meaning “good,” as used in Genesis: “God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:25).
Baby Moses is put in a basket and floated on the water to be saved, (the) basket being the same word for ark in the story of Noah. Here, we see God bringing to life a portrait of the leader of His chosen people, Israel.
How is God “painting” your life? Perhaps you have come from the bulrushes of humble beginnings. Maybe you feel inadequate for the tasks ahead, as Moses did (see Exodus 4).
Yet God’s portrait of you is slowly emerging: “We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:10). As God paints your life, be assured he is bringing tov (good) out of your blank canvas.
Kenneth Petersen
INSIGHT
Stephen’s defense before the council of Jewish leaders included biographical snapshots from Moses’ life, including his rescue by Pharaoh’s daughter (Acts 7:20-21; see Exodus 2:1-10) and that “Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action” (Acts 7:22).
Though Moses’ forty years in Pharaoh’s household prepared him for his leadership assignment, it took an additional forty years of the Master Artist’s work to ready him for rescuing the children of Israel from Egyptian slavery (see Acts 7:28-36).
Today, just as God prepared Moses for his task, He’s working in our lives to conform us to His image.
Arthur Jackson
APPLICATION
How are you experiencing God’s development of you? What does His portrait of you look like?
PR’s (Pastor Richard) RE-EMPHASIS (From Today’s Post)
“God’s portrait of you is slowly emerging: “We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:10). As God paints your life, be assured he is bringing tov (good) out of your blank canvas.”
PR’s TAKE
“Like our house(s), you – and everyone around you – will always be under construction, right up until it’s time to leave your “earthly” house (2Corinthians 5:1-10) when God completes the work He started in you.” Ryan Joy
“And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6
PRAYER
“Dear Father, please conform me into the image of Your Son, Jesus. Lead me into the portrait You wish me to be.”
TODAY’S HYMN/WORSHIP/PRAISE/GOSPEL SONG
“INTO YOUR IMAGE” New Wine
I’m longing and needing my heart
To be like yours.
To change into Your image and likeness.
I’ve come to the cross
To the place You shed your blood.
Changed by Your glory,
And not by my own strength.
I thank You for the cross;
The place where I’m transformed.
The finished work in me is done.
And when I’m with You
In the sweetness of your presence
In fellowship with You.
I become like You,
And I want to be more like you Jesus.
I thank You for the cross;
The place where I’m transformed.
The finished work in me is done.
