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The Daily Bread
Exodus 34:6-7
We're more connected than ever and more isolated than ever. The loneliness is crushing. How did we get here?
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Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness, maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Exodus 34:6-7 (BSB)
The practice
Fast from one ordinary thing until sundown.
Hunger of any kind is a reliable reminder that you are not self-sustaining.
Until dusk
Hebrew today
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Yahweh; the one bringing into being; life-giver
Brown-Driver-Briggs (Strong's H3068)
Exodus 3:15
Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.
Mark 8:12 (BSB)
Across
Down
What do you understand by “the communion of saints”?
First, that believers one and all, as members of this community, share in Christ and in all his treasures and gifts. Second, that each member should consider it a duty to use these gifts readily and joyfully for the service and enrichment of the other members.
Heidelberg Catechism (1563), Q55 · 1 Corinthians 12:7 · Romans 12:5 · 1 Corinthians 6:17
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Practice
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The Parables
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A verse from Scripture — tap the reference you think it comes from.
“A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.”
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”
“And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom spread from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
From north to south the princes meet, To pay their homage at his feet; While western empires own their Lord, And savage tribes attend his word.
To him shall endless prayer be made, And endless praises crown his head; His name, like sweet perfume, shall rise, With every morning sacrifice.
What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
Proverbs 10:24 (BSB)
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:23-24 (BSB)
What are you pretending not to know?
Daniel 7, 9
Daniel: Messiah Cut Off — Day 5 — Resolution
Read today’s plan →Exodus 34:3-5
No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.” So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him. And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
What comes just before Exodus 34:6-7, which sets the scene for today's passage.
Exodus 34:8-10
Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped. “O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.” And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.
What follows Exodus 34:6-7, where the passage keeps going.
I never saw those heights and depths in grace, and love, and mercy, as I saw after this temptation; great sins to draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.
John Bunyan · Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
36At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command. 37Answer me, O LORD! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again.”
1 Kings 18:36-37 (BSB)
Over the water, an olive leaf.
You're surrounded by people and you've never felt more alone.
29% of Americans report being frequently lonely. That's not occasional isolation—that's chronic, soul-crushing loneliness.
You live in a crowded city. You work in an office full of people. You scroll through hundreds of faces every day.
But when you need someone, really need someone, the room is empty.
You thought technology would fix this. More ways to connect, more platforms to meet people, more opportunities to build community.
Instead, you got more isolation.
How did we get here?
Here's what happened: we turned relationships into transactions.
Every friendship became networking. Every conversation became a potential opportunity. Every connection had a hidden question: *What can you do for me?*
You curate your online presence to attract the right people. You maintain relationships that benefit your career. You drop people who stop being useful.
Relationships became a market. And you became a commodity.
But here's the cost: when everything is transactional, nothing is intimate.
You can't be vulnerable with people you're trying to impress. You can't be weak with people who might replace you. You can't rest with people who only value your productivity.
So you perform. And you're exhausted. And you're alone.
Deep down, you're not looking for more connections.
You're looking for belonging.
You want people who know your name, not just your job title. People who see you struggling and don't leave. People who stay when you're no longer useful.
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The season
Ordinary Time — the long green season after Pentecost
From the day after Pentecost until Advent begins in late November — roughly half the year, all summer and autumn.
"Ordinary" here does not mean unremarkable. It comes from the same root as "ordinal" — these are the counted weeks, numbered one after another from Pentecost all the way to Advent. It is the longest season of the church year, roughly half of it, covering the whole green stretch of summer and autumn, and it has no headline feast to organize it. That is deliberate. The festival half of the year announces what God has done — birth, death, resurrection, Spirit. Ordinary Time is where the church practises living as if all of that were true, in weeks that look exactly like the ones before them. It opens with Trinity Sunday, naming the whole mystery at once, and it ends with the last Sundays turning toward judgment and hope, just before Advent starts the year again in the dark. Most of the Christian life is lived here. The season simply admits it.
The 16th week after Pentecost counts the church’s long walk of ordinary faithfulness between the Spirit’s arrival and the year’s end.
Green — the color of things that grow, worn for the long season of ordinary growth.
Getting started
Every book in the Bible was written to be received in one sitting. Almost nobody reads them that way.
20–40 min
You want a place where you can be fully known and still fully loved.
But you don't know where to find it.
The institutions that used to provide belonging are collapsing. Churches are empty. Civic groups are dying. Even family gatherings feel transactional.
And the digital replacements—group chats, online communities, parasocial relationships—aren't cutting it.
Because you can't build covenant through a screen.
You need actual presence. Actual commitment. Actual people.
But where?
This longing isn't new.
Thousands of years ago, humans asked the same question: Where do I belong when everything is falling apart?
In exile, in wandering, in displacement—people searched for home.
And the answer wasn't a place. It was a people.
God didn't promise isolated individuals. He promised a community. A family. A covenant people bound together by something deeper than blood or transaction.
The ancient Hebrews had a phrase for it: *hesed.* Steadfast love. Loyal, unshakeable commitment.
Not based on performance. Not contingent on usefulness. Just: You're mine. I'm staying.
That's the kind of belonging you're searching for.
And it still exists.
The loneliness you feel isn't a personal failure. It's a systemic collapse.
We've built a world that commodifies connection and wonders why everyone is isolated.
But here's the good news: you're not stuck in it.
There's another way to be human. Another way to belong.
It's ancient. It's countercultural. It's what Jesus was building when empire was collapsing.
Not a network. Not a platform. A covenant community.
People who don't leave when you stop being useful. People who stay when systems fail. People bound by *hesed*—steadfast, loyal, unshakeable love.
That's the kind of community the kingdom offers.
And you're invited into it.
God,
I'm so tired of being alone in a crowded world.
I've turned relationships into transactions and wondered why nothing feels real. I've performed for connection and ended up exhausted.
You say there's another way. A kind of belonging that isn't based on what I offer. A community that doesn't leave when I'm no longer useful.
I want that. I need that.
Show me where covenant people are. Or show me how to become one.
I'm ready to stop performing and start belonging.
Amen.
