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          OUR DAILY BREAD                     Wednesday, January 5, 1994
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          READ:  Colossians 3:1-10

                                 "VULTURE" APPETITES

                           Set your mind on things above,
                             not on things on the earth.
                                   Colossians 3:2

          While driving along a highway, I have often seen vultures soaring
          high  overhead, swooping down, and then rising up again with  the
          air currents.  Every so often, a small group of them can be  seen
          sitting  right on the roadway, tearing apart and gobbling up  the
          carcass of some unfortunate creature.  I get the impression  that
          these  ugly  birds  are on the lookout continually  for  what  is
          loathsome and repulsive!

          Some  people are like that.  Nothing seems to satisfy  them  more
          than feasting on what is sinful, corrupt, and immoral.  The books
          and  magazines  they  read,  the  TV  programs  they  watch,  the
          conversations  they  engage in, and the  activities  they  pursue
          reveal a vulture-like appetite.

          How  much  better  is  the spiritual  diet  the  Bible  suggests:
          "Whatever  things are true, whatever things are  noble,  whatever
          things  are just, whatever things are pure, whatever  things  are
          lovely,  whatever  things  are of good report, if  there  is  any
          virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy -- meditate on these
          things" (Phil. 4:8).

          What  kind of "food" do you prefer?  Don't be like  the  vulture.
          Rather, "as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that
          you may grow thereby" (1 Pet. 2:2).

          Author:  Richard W. De Haan

                        O child of God, guard well your eyes
                        From anything that stains the heart;
                     Forsake those things that soil the mind --
                          Your Father wants you set apart.
                                      --Fasick

          THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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          The new birth creates a new appetite and requires a new diet.

          THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Genesis 12-15

          
          






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