Beyond Words | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | October 18, 2022
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:10.1 | The devotional for today title Beyond Words was written by Marta Hahn. |
| 0:16.4 | Thomas Aquinas was one of the church's most celebrated defenders of the faith. |
| 0:21.7 | Yet just three months before his death, something caused him to leave unfinished his summa theologica, |
| 0:29.2 | the massive legacy of his life's work. While reflecting on the broken body and shed blood of his |
| 0:36.4 | Savior, Aquinas claimed to see a vision that |
| 0:39.7 | left him without words. He said, I can write no more. I have seen things that make my |
| 0:46.2 | writings seem like straw. Before Aquinas, Paul too had a vision. In 2 Corinthians, he described the experience. Whether in the body or |
| 0:57.4 | apart from the body, I do not know, but God knows, was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible |
| 1:04.8 | things. Paul and Aquinas left us to reflect on an ocean of goodness that neither words nor reason can express. |
| 1:14.2 | The implications of what Aquinas saw left him without hope of finishing his work in a way that would do justice to a God who sent his son to be crucified for us. |
| 1:25.6 | Paul continued to write, but he did so in the awareness of what he couldn't |
| 1:30.1 | express or finish in his own strength. In all the troubles Paul encountered in service to Christ, |
| 1:36.9 | he could look back and see, in his weakness, a grace and goodness beyond words and wonder. |
| 1:49.4 | Thank you. a grace and goodness beyond words and wonder. Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from 2 Corinthians |
| 1:53.8 | chapter 12, verses 1 through 10. |
| 1:57.4 | I must go on boasting, although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. |
| 2:06.2 | I know a man in Christ who 14 years ago was caught up to the third heaven. |
| 2:11.5 | Whether it was in the body or out of the body, I do not know. God knows. |
| 2:17.0 | And I know that this man, whether in the body or apart from the body, I do not know. God knows. And I know that this man, whether in the body or |
| 2:20.4 | apart from the body, I do not know, but God knows, was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible |
| 2:27.0 | things, things that no one is permitted to tell. I will boast about a man like that, but I will not |
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