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OUR DAILY BREAD                     Tuesday,  February 15, 1994 
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READ:  John 3: 1-16


        	CHANGED LIVES ARE POSSIBLE

               Do   not   marvel   that   I   said
                  to you, "You must be born
                         again."

                        - John 3:7

Lord Kenneth Clark, internationally known for his television
series  Civilization,  lived and died without faith in Jesus
Christ.   He  admitted  in  his  autobiography  that   while
visiting a beautiful church he had what he believed to be an
overwhelming religious experience.

"My whole being," Clark wrote, "was irradiated by a kind  of
heavenly  joy  far  more  intense  than anything I had known
before."  But the "flood of  grace,"  as  he  described  it,
created  a  problem.  If he allowed himself to be influenced
by it, he knew he would have to  change,  his  family  might
think he had lost his mind, and maybe that intense joy would
prove to be an illusion.  So he concluded, "I was too deeply
embedded in the world to change course."

What a tragedy!  If only he had  responded  to  that  grace-
granted glimpse of another world!  If only he had allowed it
to turn his attention decisively away from this world  until
he  had  become a convinced believer in Jesus Christ, and in
that invisible world which is not an illusion but a glorious
reality!

God can enable any and all of us to  change  no  matter  how
deeply  embedded we may be in this world.  The mircle of the
new birth can take place as we  respond  positively  to  the
slightest stirring of grace in our souls.


Author:  Vernon C. Grounds


        The  Savior  is  waiting  to  save  you          
	And cleanse  every sin-stain away;         
	By faith you can know full forgiveness         
	And be a new creature today!


                        --Henry G. Bosch

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:  
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Salvation is not a matter of reformation,         
   but of transformation.


THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Leviticus 20-23

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