OUR DAILY BREAD                     Sunday, January 15, 1995
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READ:  Proverbs 2

                REAL MOTIVATION!

    "When wisdom enters your heart...discretion
               will preserve you."

            -- Proverbs 2:10-11

Toward the close of World War II, Allied forces were
mopping up against remaining Nazi resistance.  One
particular unit was assigned a crucial mission in
Berlin.  Each soldier had to memorize a map detailing
all of Berlin's important military sites -- and they
had to do it in a single night!  In just a few hours,
each solider in the unit had committed the map to
memory.  The mission was a success.

Several years later, the Army conducted an experiment
to see if that original feat could be duplicated.
They offered a similar unit an extra week's furlough --
an attractive incentive -- if they could carry out
a comparable mission without a hitch.

But the second unit could not match the success of
the first.  What made the difference?  The lives of
men were not at stake.  Surviving in battle was a
greater motivation than a week's vacation.

Christians are engaged in spiritual warfare (Eph. 6:10-18).
Our road map, our plan of strategy against satan's mili-
tary strongholds, is the Bible.  The more we read it, the
more effective we will be for God.

We must approach God's Word as if our lives depended
on it -- because they do.  That's real motivation!

    -- Haddon W. Robinson

 Thy Word is like an armory,
  Where soldiers may repair,
    And find, for life's long battle-day,
         All needful weapons there.

              -- Hodder

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          THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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 If your life depended on knowing the Bible,
        how long would you last?

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Genesis 47-50

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