Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled Healing for the Whole World was written by Wyn Collier.

Talked into a remote gorge in western Slovenia, a secret medical facility housed an extensive staff that tended to thousands of wounded soldiers during World War II, all the while staying hidden from the Nazis.

Though avoiding detection from numerous Nazi attempts to locate the facility is in itself a remarkable feat,

even more remarkable is that the hospital, founded and run by the Slovenia resistance movement,

cared for soldiers from both the Allied and Axis armies.

The hospital welcomed everyone.

Scripture calls us to help the whole world to be spiritually healed.

This means we need to have compassion for all,

regardless of their views. Everyone, no matter their ideology, deserves Christ's love and kindness.

Paul insists in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 that Jesus' all-embracing love compels us because we are convinced that one died for all.

All of us suffer the sickness of sin.

All of us are in desperate need of the healing of Jesus' forgiveness, and he's moved toward

all of us in order to heal us.

Then, in a surprising move, God entrusted us with the message of reconciliation.

God invites us to tend to wounded and broken people like us.

We participate in healing work where the sicker made healthy through union with him.

And this reconciliation, this healing, is for all who will receive it.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from 2 Corinthians chapter 5,

verses 11 through 19. Since then, we know what it is to fear the Lord. We try to persuade others.

What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. We are not trying

to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us,

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