Our Daily Bread
Thursday, May 11, 1995

Read: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10


                       LASTING IMPRESSIONS
                                
                        From you the word
                         of the Lord has
                          sounded forth
                                
                      - 1 Thessalonians 1:8


When American financier John Pierpont Morgan died in 1913, his
last will and testament revealed his genuine faith in Jesus
Christ. He had prefaced his specific bequests with these
significant words:

     "I commit my soul into the hands of my Savior, in full
     confidence that having received it and washed it in His
     most precious blood He will present it faultless before
     the throne of my heavenly Father. And I entreat my
     children to maintain and defend, at all hazard, and at
     any cost of personal sacrifice, the blessed doctrine of
     the complete atonement for sin through the blood of
     Jesus Christ, once offered, and through that alone."

Those words must have left a lasting impression on his heirs. Yet
as commendable as it is to leave such a clear witness to one's
faith after we die, it is even more imperative to share our faith
in Christ while we are still alive.

The converts in Thessalonica responded to the witness of Paul,
Silvanus, and Timothy by imitating their life and witness so that
"the word of the Lord sounded  forth" beyond Macedonia and Achaia
(1 Th. 1:6-8). Likewise, as we spread the gospel through our
words and actions, we will leave lasting impressions on our
world.

- Vernon C. Grounds

                    I love to tell the story,
                    For some have never heard
                    The message of salvation
                    From God's own holy Word.
                                
                            - Hankey


Thought for the Day: A life lived for God leaves a lasting
                     legacy.

The Bible in One Year: Esther 1-3

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