Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Today's reading titled,

Rescued from Powerful Enemies, was written by Wyn Collier.

In 2010, at the age of 94, George Voinovich was awarded the Bronze Star

for organizing what the New York Times called

one of the greatest rescue efforts of World War II. Vojinovich, son of Serbian immigrants to the U.S.

had joined the U.S. Army. When word arrived that downed American airmen were being protected by rebels

in Yugoslavia,

Foyinovich returned to his family's homeland, parachuting into the forest to locate the pilots.

Dividing the soldiers into small groups, he taught them how to blend in with the Serbs,

wearing Serbian clothes and eating Serbian food. Then, over months, he walked each small group out one at a time to see 47 transport planes waiting at a landing strip they'd cut out of the woods.

Vojinovich rescued 512 elated, joyful men. In 2 Samuel, Chapter 22, David described the elation of being rescued by God from enemies

who'd hemmed him in with no escape.

God reached down from on high and took hold of me, David said.

He drew me out of deep waters.

King Saul enraged with jealousy, hounded David, ruthlessly seeking blood.

But God had other plans.

He rescued me from my powerful enemy, David recounted, from my foes who were too strong for me.

God rescued David from Saul.

He rescued Israel from Egypt.

And in Jesus, God came to rescue all of us. Jesus rescues us from

sin, evil, and death. He's greater than every powerful enemy.

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