Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

I'm Kirsten Holmberg, and I called our devotional reading, Delivering Help.

When Heather's job took her to Tim's house to deliver his takeout meal, he asked her to

help him untie the knot in the food bag.

Tim had suffered a stroke a few years prior and no longer had the ability to untie the

knot himself.

Heather cheerfully obliged.

Throughout the rest of her day, Heather's thoughts returned to Tim frequently,

and she was inspired to assemble a care package for him. When Tim later found the hot cocoa

and red blanket she'd left at his door with an encouraging note, he was moved to tears. Heather's

delivery became much more significant than she originally

anticipated. The same was true when Jesse sent his young son David to supply his brothers

with food when the Israelites drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines in 1st Samuel 17.

When David arrived with the bread and cheese,

he learned Goliath had been instilling fear in God's people with his daily taunting. David was incensed

by Goliath's defiance of the armies of the living God and was moved to respond, saying to King Saul,

let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine, your servant will go and fight him.

God sometimes uses the circumstances of our daily lives to put us in places where he wants to use us.

Let's keep our eyes and hearts open to see where and how he might want us to serve someone.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from 1 Samuel, Chapter 17, verses 17 through 26, and verse 32.

Now Jesse said to his son David, take this effa of roasted grain and these 10 loaves of bread for your

brothers and hurry to their camp. Take along these 10 cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your

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