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          OUR DAILY BREAD                            Monday, March 28, 1994
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          Read:  Psalm 40:1-8

                                WHERE THE BATTLE LIES

               I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.
                                     --John 17:4

          Miriam Booth, daughter of the founder of the Salvation Army,  was
          a brilliant and cultured woman who began her Christian work  with
          great  promise and unusual success.  Very soon, however,  disease
          brought her to the point of death.  A friend told her it seemed a
          pity  that  a  woman of her capabilities should  be  hindered  by
          sickness  from  doing  the Lord's work.  With  deep  insight  and
          gentle  grace, Miriam replied, "It's wonderful to do  the  Lord's
          work, but it's greater still to do the Lord's will!"

          Commenting  on  John 17:4, blind minister and  hymnwriter  George
          Matheson said, "Was the work of the Master indeed done?  Was  not
          His heaviest task yet to come?  He had not yet met the dread hour
          of death.  Why did He say, then, that His work was done?  It  was
          because He knew that when the will is given, the battle is ended!
          ...  The cup which our Father gives us to drink is a cup  of  the
          will. It is easy for the lips to drain it when once the heart has
          accepted it ... The act is easy after the choice."

          Yes, that is where the battle lies. If, like Jesus, we delight to
          do the Father's will, then the work He assigns will be done  with
          grace  and  without  hesitation,  no  matter  what  the  personal
          sacrifice may be.

          Author:  Henry G. Bosch

                        Conquered by grace, I bowed my head;
                          Forgetting myself, I humbly said,
                         "Whatever comes, His will be done!"
                         And in that moment, peace was won.
                                       --Anon.

          THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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          The best way to know God's will is to say "I will" to God.

          THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  1 Samuel 8-10














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