Hi, I'm Adam Burton, and this is The Daily Devo. Today is Monday, October 4, 2021. This week's Bible verses are Romans 11-33-36. Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments, and how inscrutable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor, or who has given a gift to Him that He might be repaid? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever.
Amen. Romans 11-33-36. Did you know that on this date in 1582 was the last day of the Julian calendar in Catholic countries. The next day, the Gregorian calendar took effect in Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain by the order of Pope Gregory XIII.
The calendar was put in place to realign events like equinoxes and solstices with the calendar, ensuring that Easter is always celebrated around the northern hemisphere's spring equinox. Because of the new calendar, several days were skipped, and October 4 was followed by October 15. Today, the Gregorian calendar is the most used calendar around the world. In 1895 was the first U.S.
Open for golf. The now annual event was played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island for the first time. 11 people played the 36-hole competition in a single day. Horace Rollins, a 20-year-old Englishman, won the tournament and took home a trophy and $150 in cash.
In 1957, the world's first artificial satellite was launched. The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Baikonur Cosmodrome is the world's oldest and largest space launch facility still in operation. The successful launch of the Sputnik spurred the space race, a race between Cold War rivals, the USSR and the US, to gain supremacy in spaceflight.
In 1966, Lesotho gained independence from British rule. And in 1992, was the end of the Mozambican Civil War. The 15-year-long civil war was fought between the Mozambican resistance movement and the Mozambican government. The conflict, which began in 1977, just a couple years after the war of independence against the Portuguese, resulted in massive losses of human life and property.
The civil war ended with the signing of the Roma General Peace Accords by both of the warring parties. And now you do know. Think about these Bible verses today from Lamentations 3, verses 19-24. Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall.
My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end.
They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in Him. Thanks for listening to The Daily Devo.
I'll see you tomorrow. God bless.