OUR DAILY BREAD                  Wed., May 3, 1995
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READ:  Genesis 5:18-24

             STEADY OR ERRATIC?

          "Enoch walked with God."

                        - Genesis 5:22

How would you describe your spiritual life?  Is it
marked by steady growth as you walk in fellowship
with Jesus and learn from him each day?  Or is it
an up-and-down kind of roller-coaster ride with
times of intensity followed by seasons of
indifference?

Too many people are "religious only by fits and
starts," remarked the noted American pastor
Jonathan Edwards.  Used by God to spearhead a
powerful revival in colonial New England, Edwards
said churchgoers are "like the waters in the time
of a shower of rain, which during the shower, and
a little after, run like a brook and flow abundantly,
but they are presently quite dry, and when another
shower comes, then they will flow again.  Whereas
a true saint is like a stream from a living spring
which, though it may be greatly increased by a
shower of rain and diminished in time of drought,
yet constantly runs."

If someone were to monitor our lives, would our
discipleship be characterized as "fits and starts"
or like "a stream from a living spring"?  Could
we say that we, like Enoch, "walked with God?"
(Gen. 5:22).

If our discipleship has been like a roller coaster,
let's prayerfully begin a steady walk with our
Lord.

                                -- Vernon C. Grounds

        Dear Jesus, take my heart and hand,
             And grant me this, I pray,
      That I through Your sweet love may grow
             More like You day by day.

                                -- Garrison

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             THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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        Discipleship demands discipline.
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THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  2 Chronicles 33-36

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