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OUR DAILY BREAD                 Wed., July 26, 1995  
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READ:  Hebrews 11:32-40   
  
          
                IN LIGHT OF ETERNITY  
                    
      "Our light affliction... is working for  
        us a far more exceeding and eternal   
                  weight of glory.  
  
                         -- 2 Corinthians 4:17  
  
After the 1991 military coup in Haiti, the inter-  
national community imposed an embargo on the tiny  
Caribbean nation.  Life for many Haitians became a  
daily struggle for survival.  
  
A missionary told me about a Christian woman who  
stood up in a meeting and prayed, "We thank You,  
Lord, for the embargo.  It has taught us to depend  
more fully on You.  And it has given us a greater 

longing for heaven." 

 

Those believers were able to live joyfully, though 

weak and undernourished, because they kept their 

eyes of faith focused on the riches and glory they 

would one day receive in heaven. 

 

We who enjoy comfortable houses and have plenty of  

food could learn from our Haitian brothers and  

sisters who live in one of the poorest countries of 

the world.  We need to look at life with an eternal 

perspective. 

 

I anticipate the time when all sin and pain and 

sorrow will have ended.  I am troubled by all the 

suffering and evil in the world.  But I'm sure those 

Haitian believers who were sick and hungry, and who 

sometimes lived under the fear of being killed, had a 

greater sense of anticipation than I do. 

 

Lord, help us view life in light of eternity, even 

when things are going well. 

 

                                -- Herbert Vander Lugt 

 

                    THINK ABOUT IT 

 

   How have difficulties caused you to think more about 

  eternal issues?  How can you remember those lessons in 

     good times?  Are you looking forward to heaven? 

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             THOUGHT FOR THE DAY             

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           We must walk in the light   

       to keep eternity's values in sight. 

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THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Song of Solomon 5-8

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