Thanks for joining us for today's reading from the Our Daily Bread Devotional.

It was written by Karen Huang, and she titled it, No Such Thing as Ordinary.

When Anita passed away in her sleep on her 90th birthday, the quietness of her departure reflected the quietness of her life.

A widow, she had been devoted to her children and grandchildren and to being a friend to younger women in the church.

Anita wasn't particularly remarkable in talent or achievement,

but her deep faith in God inspired those who knew her. When I don't know what to do about a problem,

a friend of mine said, I don't think about the words of a famous preacher or

author. I think about what Anita would say. Many of us are like Anita, ordinary people living

ordinary lives. Our names will never be in the news, and we won't have monuments built in our honor. But a life

lived with faith in Jesus is never ordinary. Some of the people listed in Hebrews chapter 11 were not

named. They walked the path of obscurity and did not receive the reward promised to them in this life.

Yet, because they obeyed God, their faith wasn't in vain.

God used their lives in ways that went beyond their lack of notoriety.

If you feel discouraged about the seeming ordinary state of your life,

remember that a life lived by faith in God has an impact throughout eternity.

Even if we're ordinary, we can have an extraordinary faith.

Thank you. We can have an extraordinary faith. Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Hebrews chapter 11, verse 1, and verses 32 through 40.

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barack, Samson, and Jephthah, 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 strength, and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead,

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