DAILY READINGS: 2 Samuel 1; Micah 3 to 4:8; Romans 9:30 to 10:21
Beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues. Matthew 10:17
The pressures and challenges of labouring in God’s harvest field have never ceased throughout the centuries. We may be reading this in a land of freedom, blessed by daily comforts, but it is well to remember and pray for those who labour in lands where false religions hold sway and whose witness for the Lord is fraught with difficulty and danger. While praying for them, perhaps you might seek God’s mind as to whether He would call you to such a ministry yourself. —Drew Craig
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease,
While others fight to win the prize and sail through stormy seas. —John H Yates