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          OUR DAILY BREAD                        Sunday, January 30, 1994
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          READ:  Luke 9:18-26

                                   WILLING TO JUMP

                  Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
                                     --Luke 9:24

          Russian  revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin spoke of  communists
          as  "dead  men on furlough."  Those dedicated  followers  of  the
          atheistic philosophy were willing to die for the cause, and  each
          new day was simply a reprieve.

          If people were willing to risk everything for a cause based on  a
          lie, how much more should we who know Christ be willing to do  so
          for  the truth!  Jesus told those who wanted to be His  disciples
          that they had to be willing to follow Him to death.  It was to be
          a commitment of their entire life, no matter what the cost.

          In his book "One Crowded Hour", Tim Bowden describes an  incident
          in Borneo in 1964.  Nepalese fighters known as Gurkhas were asked
          if  they  would  be willing to jump from  airplanes  into  combat
          against  the Indonesians.  The Gurkhas didn't clearly  understand
          what was involved, but they bravely said they would do it, asking
          only  that the plane fly slowly over a swampy area and no  higher
          than 100 feet.  When they were told that the parachutes would not
          have  time to open at that height, the Gurkhas replied, "Oh,  you
          didn't mention parachutes before!"

          Jesus  calls us to follow Him with a similar kind  of  commitment
          and courage, willing to risk all for His sake.

          Author:  Haddon W. Robinson

                    Halfhearted! Master, shall any who know Thee
                Grudge Thee their lives, who has laid down Thine own?
                  Nay! We would offer the hearts that we owe Thee,
                       Live for Thy love and Thy glory alone.
                                     --Havergal

          THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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          We  may not walk to the Martyr's stake, But we must walk  in  the
          Master's steps.

          THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Exodus 8-10

          
          
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