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Note from my ODB source:

Due to some difficulties, todays ODB will be from 1992, one of my personal
favorites. It's an oldie but a goodie. Also, no weekend ODB this week.
May the Lord bless you all!

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OUR DAILY BREAD                                Tuesday, April 7, 1992
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READ:  Galatians 6:1-10


                            COUNT ON IT!

        Do not be deceived, .... for whatever a man sows,
             that he will also reap.  --Galatians 6:7

A children's book   titled `The Chance  World'  describes an imaginary
planet where everything  happens unpredictably.  For example,  the sun
might rise one day or it might  not, and  it might appear at any hour.
Some days the moon might come up in its place.  One day you might jump
up  and not come  down, and  the next day  find  gravity so strong you
can't even lift your feet.

Henry Drummond,  the Scottish biologist,  writer, and   lecturer, read
`The Chance World'.   He commented that  in such a place where natural
law was annihilated, "reason would be  impossible.  It would  become a
lunatic world with a population of lunatics."

We should be thankful  for the dependability of  the natural laws  the
Creator has set in  motion.   They can be a great  benefit to us if we
recognize and respect them.  If  we  violate  those laws, however,  we
will suffer the consequences.

That is also true of God's spiritual laws, such  as the one in today's
text.  The  person who ignores God's   standards and  caters to sinful
appetites can expect  destruction.  But the  person  who  follows  the
leading  of the Spirit   will experience the  blessings of everlasting
life.

God's laws never fail.  You will reap what you sow.  Count on it!

                Surer than autumn's harvests
                Are harvests of thought and deed;
                Like those that our hands have planted,
                The yield will be like the seed.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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    If we sow nothing but sin,
       we can count on a harvest of judgement.


Author: Richard W.  De Haan

Our Daily Bread,  Copyright  1992,  Radio Bible Class,  Grand  Rapids,
Michigan 49555-0001    Used by permission.