Max Lucado Devotional 24th January 2024: In God’s Great Gospel

READ TODAY’S DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR 24 JANUARY 2024 BY MAX LUCADO

TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE: No one knows me, we think. People know my name but not my heart. They know my face but not my feelings. I have a social security number but not a soul mate. No one really knows me. The response of heaven is, “God does!” Prophets weren’t enough. Apostles wouldn’t do. Angels won’t suffice. God sent more than miracles and messages, he sent himself. He sent his Son.

In God’s great gospel, he not only sends, he becomes. He lives with. He lives as one of us. He knows our hurt, he knows our hunger, he knows betrayal. Most of all, he knows sin. He knows them better than you do. He knows their price, because he paid it. “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18). God knows you.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THIS DEVOTIONAL: Max Lucado is a pastor, speaker, and best-selling author who, in his own words, “writes books for people who don’t read books.” He serves the people of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, and his message is for the hurting, the guilty, the lonely, and the discouraged: God loves you; let him.

As a writer, Max is known for combining poetic storytelling and homespun humor with the heart of a pastor. All of his trade books began as sermon series at Oak Hills Church, and his sermons all begin with Max asking himself this question: “What can I say on Sunday that will still matter on Monday?” He’s been dubbed “America’s Pastor” by Christianity Today, and “The Best Preacher in America” by Reader’s Digest.