Hey there and welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled Faithful but Not Forgot was written by Leslie Co.

As he was growing up, Sean knew little about what it meant to have a family.

His mother had died and his father was hardly home. He often meant to have a family. His mother had died, and his father was hardly

home. He often felt lonely and abandoned. A couple who lived nearby, however, reached out to Sean.

They took him into their home and got their children to be big brother and big sister to him,

which gave Sean assurance that he was loved. They also took him to church,

where Sean, now a confident young man, is a youth leader today. Although this couple played

such a key role in turning a young life around, what they did for Sean isn't widely known

to most people in their church family, but God knows. And I believe

their faithfulness will be rewarded someday, as will those listed in the Bible's Hall of Faith.

Hebrews 11 starts with the big names of Scripture, but it goes on to speak of countless others

we may never know, yet who were all commended for their faith.

And the world, says the writer, was not worthy of them.

Even when our deeds of kindness go unnoticed by others, God sees and knows.

What we do might seem like a small thing, a kind deed or an encouraging word, but God can use

it to bring glory to his name, in his time, and in his way. He knows, even if others don't.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Hebrews chapter 11, verses 32 through 40.

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jeptha,

about David and Samuel and the prophets,

who through faith, conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised,

who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword, whose weakness was turned to

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