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OUR DAILY BREAD                 Friday, Aug. 25, 1995 
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READ:  Titus 2:11-15     
                 
                     BARNYARD DUCKS    
 
          "We should live soberly, righteously,  
             and godly in the present age." 
 
                         - Titus 2:12  
 
Does the following anonymous poem describe how you 
feel? 
 
        My soul is like a barnyard duck 
        Muddling in the barnyard muck, 
        Fat and lazy with useless wings; 
        But sometimes, when the northwind sings 
        And wild ducks fly overhead, 
        It ponders something lost and dead, 
        Then cocks a wary, bewildered eye 
        And makes a feeble attempt to fly. 
        It's quite content with the state it's in, 
        But it's not the duck it might have been. 
 
Are you haunted by the fear that you'll never be 
what God meant you to be?  That you're preoccupied 
with the trinkets of this passing world?  Are you 
"living in the barnyard" when you could be soaring? 
 
Do you really want to fly?  Do you long to soar  
above the pettiness and insignificance of the 
barnyard muck? 
 
You can!  Put aside the sin and worldly weights 
that are holding you down (Heb. 12:1) and get 
busy with the tasks the Lord has for you.  Only 
in Christ do we find the fulfillment He longs for 
each of us to enjoy. 
 
Remember that Jesus came to set you free and let 
you soar as you look for His coming (Ti. 2:11-13). 
Isn't it time you got out of the mud and did some 
flying? 
                        -- Haddon W. Robinson 
 
          In this world but never of it, 
         Help me, Lord, to live this day 
        Free from all that would entangle, 
            Of the dazzle and array. 
 
                        -- Graves 
 
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            THOUGHT FOR THE DAY 
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      If your Christian life is a drag, 
   worldly weights are probably to blame. 
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THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Jeremiah 24-26

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