Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Today's reading titled Never Give Up was written by Patricia Rabin.

Time went by. War came in.

That's how Bishop Semi Nigo of the Kaliko people of South Sudan described

delays in his church's long struggle to get the Bible in their own language. Not one word,

in fact, had ever been printed in the Kaliko language. Decades earlier, Bishop Nigo's grandfather had courageously started a Bible translation

project, but war and unrest kept halting the effort.

Yet, despite repeated attacks on their refugee camps in northern Uganda and the Democratic

Republic of the Congo.

The bishop and fellow believers kept the project alive.

Their persistence paid off.

After nearly three decades, the New Testament Bible in Calico was delivered to the refugees in a rousing celebration. The motivation of the calico is beyond words,

said one project consultant. The commitment of the calico reflects the perseverance God asked of Joshua.

As God told him in Joshua 1-8, keep this book of the law always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night,

so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

With equal persistence, the Calico pursued the translation of Scripture.

Now, when you see them in the camps, they are smiling, said one translator.

Hearing and understanding the Bible gives them hope. Like the Calico people, may we never give up seeking the power and wisdom of Scripture.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from the book of Joshua, chapter 1,

verses 1 through 9.

After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, son of none, Moses

aid, Moses, my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people get ready to cross the Jordan River

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