Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Today's reading titled Brave Love was written by Patricia Rabin.

The four chaplains weren't known as heroes, but on a frigid February night in 1943, when their transport

ship, the SS Dorchester, was torpedoed off the coast of Greenland during World War II,

the four gave their all to calm hundreds of panicked soldiers. With the ship sinking and injured men jumping

for overcrowded lifeboats, the four chaplains calmed the pandemonium by preaching courage,

a survivor said. When life jackets ran out, each took his off, giving it to a frightened young man.

They had determined to go down with the ship so that others might live.

Said one survivor, it was the finest thing I have seen or hoped to see this side of heaven.

Linking arms as the ship began to sink, the chaplains prayed aloud together,

offering encouragement to those perishing with them.

Bravery marks their saga. Love, however, defines the gift the four offered.

Paul urged such love of all believers, including those in the storm-tossed church at Corinth.

Royaled by conflict, corruption, and sin, Paul urged them in 1st

Corinthians chapter 16 to, be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.

Then he added, do everything in love.

It's a sterling command for every believer in Jesus,

especially during a crisis.

In life, when upheaval threatens,

our bravest response reflects Christ, giving to others his love.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from 1st Corinthians chapter 1,

verses 10 through 14.

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