Hey, welcome to another daily encouragement from your friends at Our Daily Bread. The devotional

reading for today was written by James Banks, and he titled it, Worth It or Worthy.

Helen Rosevere, an English missionary physician in the African Congo, was taken prisoner

by rebels during the Simba Rebellion in 1964.

Beaten and abused by her captors, she suffered terribly.

In the days that followed, she found herself asking, is it worth it?

As she began to ponder the cost of following Jesus, she sensed God speaking to her about it.

Years later, she explained to an interviewer, when the awful moments came during the rebellion

and the price seemed too high to pay, the Lord seemed to say to me,

change the question. It's not, is it worth it? It's, am I worthy? She concluded that in spite of the

pain she had endured, always the answer is, yes, he is worthy. Through God's grace at work within her during her

harrowing ordeal, Helen Rosevere decided that the Savior, who had suffered even death for her,

was worthy to be followed no matter what she faced. Her words, He is worthy, echo the cries of those surrounding Jesus'

throne in the book of Revelation. In a loud voice they were saying, worthy is the lamb who was

slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise. Our Savior suffered and bled and died for us,

giving himself entirely so that we may freely receive eternal life and hope. His all deserves

our all. He is worthy. Now hear the hope of God's word. Today's scripture reading is taken from

Revelation chapter 5, verses 6 through 12. Then I saw a lamb looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the

throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The lamb had seven horns and seven

eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. He went and took the scroll from the right hand of

him who sat on the throne. And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the 24 elders

fell down before the lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense,

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