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    OUR DAILY BREAD                       Friday, December 24, 1993
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    Read:  Colossians 2:6-19

                              WITHIN REACH

          In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
                            --Colossians 2:9

    A  little girl once said to her mother, "Mama, I like you  better
    than God."

    "Oh, you must not say that!" replied the mother.

    "Yes, but really, Mama, I do like you better than God."

    Shocked, her mother inquired, "Dear, what makes you say that?"

    The child answered simply, "Because I can hug you!"

    That  little girl expressed the universal desire of man  to  have
    contact with God in a personal, tangible way.  A spirit without a
    body  is  difficult  for us to conceive, but a  real  "flesh  and
    bones" man is a concrete reality we can understand. In the incar-
    nation, therefore, Jesus brought God within embracing distance.

    Someone has said, "The kindest thing God ever did was to become a
    Man!"  It  is indeed a thrilling truth.  Because  of  the  incar-
    nation, we can now have a much clearer understanding of God,  and
    we  can experience a warm, personal contact with Him through  the
    person  of  His Son.  No wonder the apostle  John  declared,  "We
    beheld  His  glory,  the glory as of the  only  begotten  of  the
    Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14).

    Have you embraced Christ as your Savior?
     
    Author:  Herbert Vander Lugt

                    Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
                        Hail the incarnate Deity,
                    Pleased as man with men to dwell,
                          Jesus, our Emmanuel.
                                --Wesley

    THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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    Christ's  birth brought the infinite God within reach  of  finite
    man.

    THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  1 John 3-5


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