Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

Today's reading titled Never Say Can't was written by Alison Keita.

Jen was born without legs and abandoned at the hospital.

Yet she says being put up for adoption was a blessing.

I am here because of the people who poured into me.

Her adoptive family helped her to see she was born like this for a reason.

They raised her to never say can't and encouraged her in all her pursuits,

including becoming an accomplished acrobat and aerialist. She meets challenges with an attitude of how can I tackle this, and

motivates others to do the same. The Bible tells the stories of many people God used, who

seemed incapable or unsuited for their

calling, but God used them anyway. Moses is a classic example. When God called him to lead the

Israelites out of Egypt in Exodus chapter 3, he balked and protested. I am slow of speech and tongue. God replied,

Who gave human beings their mouths, who makes them deaf or mute? Is it not I, the Lord?

Now go. I will help you speak and will teach you what to say. When Moses still protested, God provided Aaron to speak for him

and assured him he would help them. Like Jen and like Moses, all of us are here for a reason,

and God graciously helps us along the way. He supplies people to help us and provides what we need to live for him.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Exodus chapter 3,

verses 7 through 10, and chapter 4, 10 through 15.

The Lord said, I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out

because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to

rescue them from the land of the Egyptians,

and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with

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