Quiet Faithfulness in Christ | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | January 4, 2024
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.7 | Our Reading is titled Quiet Faithfulness in Christ, and it was written by Adam Holes. |
| 0:16.0 | I didn't notice him at first. I'd come down for breakfast at my hotel. |
| 0:21.7 | Everything in the dining room was clean. The buffet table was filled. The refrigerator was stocked. The utensil |
| 0:27.3 | container packed tight. Everything was perfect. Then I saw him. An unassuming man refilled this, |
| 0:36.0 | wiped that. He didn't draw attention to himself. |
| 0:39.7 | But the longer I sat, the more I was amazed. |
| 0:43.9 | The man was working very fast, noticing everything and refilling everything before anyone might need something. |
| 0:50.7 | As a food service veteran, I noticed his constant attention to detail. |
| 0:55.3 | Everything was perfect because this man was working faithfully, even if you noticed. |
| 1:02.4 | Watching this man works so meticulously, I recalled Paul's words to the Thessalonians. |
| 1:08.8 | Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life. |
| 1:12.5 | You should mind your own business and work with your hands so that your daily life may win |
| 1:17.4 | the respect of outsiders. |
| 1:19.9 | Paul understood how a faithful worker might win others' respect, offering a quiet testimony |
| 1:25.4 | to how the gospel can infuse even seemingly small acts of service for others |
| 1:30.5 | with dignity and purpose. |
| 1:33.3 | I don't know if the man I saw that day was a believer in Jesus, |
| 1:37.3 | but I'm grateful his quiet diligence reminded me to rely on God to live out a quiet faithfulness |
| 1:44.1 | that reflects his faithful ways. |
| 1:51.7 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, |
| 1:57.6 | verses 1 and 2 and verses 9 through 12. |
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