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OUR DAILY BREAD                       Saturday, November 12, 1994
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READ:  Obadiah 1:1-7


                "SUPERMEN AND AIRPLANES"

       "The pride of your heart has deceived you.

                    - Obadiah 1:3

My daughter travels all over the world as a flight
attendant and often comes home with some fascinating
tales.  One such story is about former heavyweight
boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who was seated in an
aircraft that was preparing for takeoff.  A flight
attendant, noticing that he did not have his seatbelt
fastened, asked him kindly, "Excuse me, sir, but
would you mind fastening your seatbelt?"

As the story goes, Muhammad Ali looked up with that
saucy grin of his and said in a slow, gravelly voice,
"Superman don't need no seatbelt!"  Without missing
a beat, the flight attendant packed a punch with this
quick reply:  "Superman don't need no airplane, so
how about fastening up?"

Of course, Ali was only joking.  If a person really
believed he was Superman, he would be seriously
deluded.  He would be like the ancient Edomites in
today's Scripture who had been self-deceived by
their own pride.  The truth is, we all have the same
tendency.

A. W. Tozer aptly described the kind of Christians
the Lord longs for us to be:  "Men and women who have
stopped being 'fooled' about their own strength and
are not afraid of being 'caught' depending on their
all-sufficient Lord."
    -- Joanie E. Yoder

 Sift the substance of my life,
 Filtering out the sin and strife;
 Leave me, Lord, a purer soul,
 Cleansed and sanctified and whole.

   -- Lemon

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*        THOUGHT FOR THE DAY        *
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*  To experience God's strength,    *
*   we must admit our weakness.     *
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* THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Acts 6-9  *
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