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          OUR DAILY BREAD                       Tuesday, January 11, 1994
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          READ:  2 Timothy 1:8-14

                                 WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW

                            I know whom I have believed.
                                  --2 Timothy 1:12

          Do  you know an aglet from a tang?  Would you recognize  duff  if
          you walked on it?

          It's  not essential to know these terms to make it  through  life
          successfully.  If you didn't know that an aglet is "the  covering
          on  the end of a shoelace," that a tang is "the projecting  prong
          on  a  tool," or that a duff is "the decaying matter found  on  a
          forest  floor,"  it's not all that important.  You  could  always
          look it up.

          We can be glad we don't have to know everything to get by in this
          world.  We  often  can depend on someone  else's  knowledge.  For
          instance, I don't know how to fix the brakes of my car -- but  as
          long as someone else knows and can fix them, I'm okay.

          There  is  a knowledge, however, for which  we  are  individually
          responsible  if  we expect to enter  heaven.  I'm  talking  about
          knowing  Christ  personally.  We  live in  an  age  of  expanding
          information, and a personal relationship with Christ is the  only
          way to live wisely and be prepared to meet God.  The apostle Paul
          had this in mind when he said, "I know whom I have believed."

          Do  you know the One who died for you and can forgive your  sins?
          Unless you know Him, all other knowledge is insignificant.

          Author:  J. David Branon

                             Eternal life is knowing God
                         Through Jesus Christ His only Son;
                     Such knowledge is life's greatest quest --
                           Without it life has not begun.
                                        --DJD
          THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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          To know Christ is the greatest of all knowledge.

          THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Genesis 33-36

          
          




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