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          OUR DAILY BREAD                        Saturday, March 12, 1994
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          Read:  Proverbs 11:1-11

                                    HONEST PEOPLE

                  Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord,
                          but a just weight is His delight.
                                   --Proverbs 11:1

          I hate dishonesty. It creates victims.  I have lost money because
          I trusted people who were not honest.  And I have met people  who
          have  been cheated out of their life's savings by  smooth-talking
          con artists.

          God  hates  dishonesty too.  Proverbs 11:1 says  that  "dishonest
          scales  are  an abomination to the Lord."  This verse  refers  to
          people  who cheated others in the marketplace.  The  overcharging
          may  have amounted to only a few pennies per sale, but God  hated
          this practice.

          Honest people, on the other hand, do what they can to make things
          right, even when it costs them something.

          I  know a husband and wife who failed in their business and  were
          forced  to declare bankruptcy.  This released them from  a  legal
          obligation  to  pay  their  bills, but they  didn't  view  it  as
          releasing  them from a moral obligation to  their  creditors.  So
          they  both worked, raised their family in a low-cost  house,  and
          lived  frugally.  It took years of hard work and  sacrifice,  but
          they paid off every debt.

          Our  honesty  is always on trial. It is tested when we  make  out
          work  reports, file income tax returns, and make a sale.  May  we
          be  so  aware  of God in our lives that we will be  a  people  of
          unquestioned honesty.

          Author:  Herbert Vander Lugt

                      Help me, dear Lord, to be honest and true
                        In all that I say and all that I do;
                      Give me the courage to do what is right,
                   And bring to the world a glimpse of Your light.
                                      --Fasick

          THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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          There is no legacy as right as integrity.

          THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:   Joshua 4-6


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