A challenge to be courageous and compassionate like Ebed-Melech, who risked his own life to rescue the prophet Jeremiah from a cistern, demonstrating the importance of combining firmness with kindness and using the 'ropes of truth' and 'rags of grace' to help others in need. [... more]

The story of Jeremiah, a prophet who delivers God's message, is met with opposition and thrown into a cistern. However, God intervenes through Ebed-Melech, a Cushite official in the royal palace, who shows compassion and courage to save Jeremiah's life. [... more]