OUR DAILY BREAD             Thurs., June 8, 1995   
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READ: Jeremiah 6:1-20

               
                    THE OLD PATHS     

     "Ask for the old paths, where the good way   
                 is, and walk in it."  

                                   Jeremiah 6:16

I seldom yearn for "the good old days."  The
quality of today's cars, for example, far exceeds
that of my first one, a 1935 model with only a
manifold heater and a short lifespan.  When somebody
says, "They don't make them like they used to," I
reply, "I'm sure glad they don't."

I do long, however, for a return to the "old paths,
where the good way is" (Jer. 6:16).  There was a 
time when schoolchildren were taught kindness, 
purity, loyalty, obedience to authority, and 
reverence for God.  Back then, newspaper and
magazine articles reflected the belief that we
are moral beings who should exercise self-restraint
and seek the good of others.

Today, this idea has largely been scrapped and 
replaced with the concept that we can be happy 
only when we have freedom to fulfill our every 
selfish desire.  Rejecting the old paths is not
new.  In Jeremiah's day, people weren't ashamed
of their sins (v. 15).  And when the prophet
pleaded for them to return to the "good way,"
they responded, "We will not walk in it" (v. 16).

We need not be discouraged, however.  God is
still in control.  We can show the way by loving
people and praying for them.  History records many
revivals when multitudes returned to the old paths.
It can happen again!

                        -- Herbert Vander Lugt

        Send a revival, O Christ, my Lord,
         Let it go over the land and sea;
        Send it according to Thy dear Word,
              And let it begin in me.

                        -- McKinney

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           THOUGHT FOR THE DAY 
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 Our purpose on earth is not to get used 
  to the dark but to walk in the light.
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THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Psalms 43-45

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