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Our Daily Bread                          Friday, June 10, 1994

                        TWO CRUCIAL QUESTIONS

Read: Acts 9:1-9

Who are you, Lord? ...Lord, what do you want me to do? Acts 9:5-6

Receiving Jesus as our Savior from sin brings us into a life changing
relationship with the Son of God. Although we may mot know at the time
all the far reaching implications of our commitment to Him, we cannot
escape the fact that because He is God, He has a right to be Lord of
every area of our lives. Sooner or later we must come to that point
where we confess, in the words of Thomas, "My Lord and my God!" 
(John 20:28)

In Saul's conversion experience, he recognized Jesus as both Savior and
Lord. When Saul heard Jesus' voice on the Damascus highway, he asked the
crucial question: "Who are you, Lord?" From the answer, "I am Jesus," 
Paul instantly realized that the One he had been persecuting truly was
the Savior. In that moment he cast himself on His mercy. Trembling in
the divine presence, he asked a second crucial question, "Lord, what do
you want me to do?" He was, as Oswald Chambers put it, "giving up his
right to himself."

Believer, you've trusted Jesus as your Savior. You've settled the issue of
who He is. But have you asked that second crucial question, "Lord, what do
you want me to do?" Say to Him today, "Lord, I'll do whatever You ask!" - DJD

                          Take my life and let it be
                        Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;
                      Take my hands and let them move
                    At the impulse of Thy love. - Havergal

Bible in one year: Ecclesiastes 1-3

Thought for the day:

Because Christ purchased us, he has the right to possess us.

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