DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries)
APRIL 21, 2026
READ: Luke 15 (Focus vs. 8-10)
MEMORY VERSE
“Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.” Luke 15:9
BACKGROUND
When I visited Ecuador’s Amazon region with my father many years ago, we took a fun speedboat ride to a small village to take in the sights and learn about the local tribes. My dear dad bought me handmade jewelry, including a set of earrings.
I only wore those earrings on special occasions, including when I went to visit my sister for my birthday. When I came back from my trip, I was horrified to discover I’d lost one of my earrings. I looked everywhere.
It was just an earring, but I’d have to travel all the way back to the Amazon jungle to replace it. Amazingly, when my sister returned to the restaurant we had visited for my birthday, she spotted my missing earring in their lost and found. I was overjoyed!
Jesus told a parable about a woman who’d lost her silver coin. She wouldn’t rest while her valuable coin was missing. “Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?” Jesus asked (Luke 15:8). And when she found her coin, she greatly rejoiced (v. 9).
Jesus told this story to demonstrate how precious we are to God. He “came to seek and to save” those who are lost (19:10). Although we were once lost, heaven rejoiced when we were found.
Nancy Gavilanes
INSIGHT
God’s love for us is described throughout the Bible. John 3:16-17 declares, “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
He “did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
God “lavished” great love on us by “[sending] his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 3:1; 4:10). We were deserving of death, but because of God’s merciful love, He “made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions” (Ephesians 2:5; see Romans 5:8).
When we turn away from our sins and place our faith in Jesus, heaven rejoices (Luke 15:10).
Alyson Kieda
APPLICATION
How does it feel to know you’re precious to God? How does it feel to know heaven rejoices when we’re found?
PR’s (Pastor Richard) RE-EMPHASIS (From Today’s Post)
How does it feel to know you’re precious to God? How does it feel to know heaven rejoices when we’re found?
PR’s TAKE
“We all experience times when we are “lost” in some way…Maybe you feel like you wandered off or taken a wrong turn somewhere…It’s important to know that whether you are really lost, a little lost or just a tiny bit lost. God is looking for you…searching for you and when He finds you, He’s going to throw a party” Joyce Meyer
PRAYER
“Dear God, thank You for searching for me.”
TODAY’S HYMN/WORSHIP/PRAISE/GOSPEL SONG
“AMAZING GRACE”
Amazing grace (how sweet the sound)
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
‘T’was grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!
Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come:
’tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease:
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who called me here below,
will be forever mine.
