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OUR DAILY BREAD                                    July 9, 1994
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Read: 1 Peter 1:3-9



                         WHAT'S MISSING?

                  Christ... has begotten us again
                         to a living hope

                           - 1 Peter 1:3


Tennis star Boris Becker was at the very top of the tennis world
- yet he was on the brink of suicide. He said, "I had won
Wimbledon twice before, once as the youngest player. I was rich.
I had all the material possessions I needed... It's the old song
of movie stars and pop stars who commit suicide. They have every-
thing, and yet they are so unhappy. I had no inner peace. I was a
puppet on a string."

Becker is not the only one to feel that sense of emptiness. The
echoes of a hollow life pervade our culture. One doesn't have to
read mean contemporary biographies to find the same frustration
and disappointment. Jack Higgens, author of such successful nov-
els as The Eagle Has Landed, was asked what he would like to have
known as a boy. His answer: "That when you get to the top,
there's nothing there."

What's missing? When a person has so much and is still bitterly
dissatisfied-- even suicidal-- what's not there? A relationship
with God.

The Creator made us with a need for meaning and purpose and hope
that only He can satisfy. He meets this need when we enter into a
personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Trusting Jesus as Savior
is the only way for anyone, successful or not, to find what'
missing. - DCE 

                We search for peace, although aware
                That worldly roads lead to despair;
                 But if by faith to Christ we turn,
                        God's grace and truth 
                          we'll soon discern.
                                - DJD


THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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Only God can fill the emptiness of the human heart.


The Bible In One Year: Isaiah 7-9


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