Hello, friends, and thanks for joining us for today's edition of Our Daily Bread.

Jennifer Benson Schult wrote our devotion, and she titled it, Pulled to Safety.

A little girl waited in a shallow creek while her father watched. Her rubber boots reached her knees.

As she slashed downstream, the water deepened until it flowed over the top of her waiters.

When she couldn't take another step, she yelled, Daddy, I'm stuck. In three strides, her father was at her side, pulling her to the grassy bank.

She yanked her boots off and laughed as water poured onto the ground.

After God rescued the psalmist David from his enemies, he took a moment to sit down,

pull off his boots, and allowed the relief to flood his soul.

He wrote a song to express his feelings.

He said in 2 Samuel 22.4, I called to the Lord who is worthy of praise and have been saved from my enemies. He praised God as his rock, fortress, shield, and stronghold, and then went on to narrate

a poetic response of God's response. The earth trembled. God came down from heaven. Lightning

bolts flew from his presence. His voice thundered, and he drew him out of deep water. Maybe today you feel

opposition around you. Maybe you're stuck in sin that makes it hard to advance spiritually.

Reflect on how God has helped you in the past, and then praise him and ask him to do it again. Thank him, especially for

rescuing you by bringing you into his kingdom. Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture

reading is from 2 Samuel, Chapter 22, verses 13 through 20.

Out of the brightness of his presence, bolts of lightning blazed forth.

The Lord thundered from heaven, the voice of the most high resounded.

He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy.

With great bolts of lightning,

he routed them. The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of breath from his nostrils. He reached down from on high

and took hold of me. He drew me out of deep

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