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          OUR DAILY BREAD                          Friday, March 11, 1994
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          Read:  Acts 17:22-34

                                "TO THE UNKNOWN GOD"

                      The One whom you worship without knowing,
                               Him I proclaim to you.
                                    --Acts 17:23

          It  is  said that in ancient Greece a plague once  swept  through
          Athens. To pacify the gods they supposed were responsible, altars
          were  erected to every god known to the Greeks.  Yet the  scourge
          continued.  Finally  in  desperation,  another  altar  was  built
          bearing these words:

                                 TO THE UNKNOWN GOD

          Soon afterward, the plague subsided.

          Many  years  later,  when  Paul  visited  Athens  on  his  second
          missionary  journey,  he  walked  about the  city  and  saw  that
          inscription.  Seizing  the  opportunity,  he  proclaimed  to  his
          listeners,  "The  One  whom you worship without  knowing,  Him  I
          proclaim to you."  That one God, of whom they knew nothing,  Paul
          knew  personally.  He  presented Him as the "Lord of  heaven  and
          earth" (Acts 17:24).  But the apostle didn't stop there.  He also
          called  for repentance, for the world would someday be judged  in
          righteousness by Jesus Christ.

          We  don't need to go through life searching for an  unknown  god,
          for  the one true God has already revealed Himself to us  through
          His Son.  The moment we turn from our sin and accept Jesus as our
          personal Savior, we come to know the Creator Himself.

          Do you know Him, or is He still unknown to you?

          Author:  Dennis J. De Haan

                    Man gropes his way through life's dark maze,
                           To gods unknown he often prays,
                         Until the day he meets God's Son --
                          At last he finds the Living One!
                                        --DJD

          THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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          In  creation, God shows us His hand; in redemption, He  shows  us
          His heart.

          THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:   Joshua 1-3
          
          
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