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OUR  DAILY BREAD                         Friday, May 27, 1994
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READ:  Romans 6:1-14

                        "MADE TO SOAR"

                  Sin shall not have dominion
                over you, for your are  not  under
                    law but under grace.

                                 - Romans 6:14

When I visit the zoo, I skip  the  eagles'  cage.   I  can't
stand  the  pain of seeing those majestic birds sit there on
their perches day after day,  their  burnished  brown  wings
draped  over  them  like an ill-fitting old coat.  They were
created for the heights, to dance among the clouds,  not  to
be prisoners in a cage.  Those birds were made to fly.

Many people who profess that they are Christ's men and women
are  like those caged eagles.  They are made to live as free
citizens of heaven, but they are  imprisoned  by  their  own
sin.  Their condition must break God's heart.  He knows what
they could become, but they have put themselves in  a  cage.
And the irony is that it is a cage with open doors.

The apostle Paul said that we who  have  put  our  trust  in
Christ have died with Him to the sin that confined us in our
old life.  And we are now alive in Him.  We are not the per-
son  we  used to be.  Therefore, we must stop facing life as
we used to face it.

Think long about those  truths.   Remind  yourself  of  them
often.   Through  Christ,  you have been set free!  You were
never meant to be imprisoned in a cage.   Confess  your  sin
and trust God anew.  You were made to soar.

Author:  Haddon W. Robinson

        Lord, I thank You for  salvation,
        For  Your mercy,  full  and free;
        Take my all in consecration,
        Glorify Yourself in me.    - Anon.


THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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Christ  is  the open door
   out of the cage of sin.

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Psalms 139-141