OUR DAILY BREAD                       Sunday, January 8, 1995
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READ:  1 John 2:24-3:2

                ROYAL LIZARDS

    "A lizard can be caught with the hand,
      yet it is found in kings' palaces."

          -- Proverbs 30:28 (NIV)

Most lizards are small and somewhat repulsive.  Yet it's
amazing where they can go.  I've seen a lizard on the
26th floor of a hotel in Acapulco, Mexico.

How did it get there?  Did it climb the stairs?  Take
the elevator?  Scale the walls?  Who knows?  Lizards can
get past guards and maids, and can end up in the best
hotels.  The author of Proverbs 30:28 marveled that a
lizard ("spider" NKJV) could be found even in the throne
room of kings.

Something else that should cause us to marvel is the
thought of who will live in the royal palaces of heaven.

Think of the Christians you may be tempted to despise:
The man with bad breath and body odor who gets too close
to you when he talks.  The woman who sings too loudly
and a bit off key.  The teenager whose hairstyle and
clothing you don't approve of.  If you could see them
now as one day they shall be, you would marvel at their
beauty.  And remember, because of sin, we too are
unlikely future residents of heaven.  But by God's
grace, we will inhabit heaven as sons and daughters of
God.

In the mystery of grace, God takes unlikely people and
puts them into His palace for eternity.  And we don't
have to climb the walls to get there.  Wow!

    --  Haddon W. Robinson

What unlikely people will be in heaven? (1 Cor. 6:9-11).
Why doesn't anyone deserve to be there?  (Romans 3:23).
What qualifies us?  (Romans 10:9-10; Galatians 3:26).

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          THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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       God claims by grace those
      who have no claim to grace.

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Genesis 23-26

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