Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

I'm Amy Boucher Pye and I called our reading Making God Known.

A love for God and for people undergirds Catherine's Bible translating work. She rejoices when women in India

come to a deeper understanding of scripture, reading it in their mother tongue. She remarks that when

they do, they often start cheering or clapping. They read about Jesus and they say, oh, wonderful. Catherine longs for

more people to read the scriptures in their own language. In this desire, she holds close to her

heart the vision of the aging disciple John on the island of Patmos. Through the spirit, God ushered him into the throne room of heaven,

where he saw a great multitude that no one could count

from every nation, tribe, people, and language,

standing before the throne and before the lamb.

Altogether they worshipped God,, salvation belongs to our God.

God continues to add to the great number of people praising him. He uses not only the work of

Bible translators and those praying for them, but also those who reach out to their neighbors

in love with the good news of Jesus. We can rejoice in this joyful mission, marveling at how

God will spark more people to join with the angels in saying, praise and glory and wisdom

and thanks and honor and power and strength,

be to our God forever and ever.

Our passage from the Bible today is from Revelation chapter 7, verses 9 through 12. After this I looked,

and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count from every nation, tribe,

people, and language standing before the throne and before the lamb. They were wearing white robes

and were holding palm branches in their hands, and they cried out in a loud voice. Salvation belongs

to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb.

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