OUR DAILY BREAD             Friday, March 31, 1995
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READ:  Genesis 3:1-6

                  DOUBTING GOD

      Every good gift and every perfect gift
                  is from above.

                         - James 1:17

When Satan tempted Eve, he did so by enticing her to
doubt God's character.  He told Eve, "God knows that
in the day you eat of (the forbidden fruit) your eyes
will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good
and evil" (Gen. 3:5).

Satan was implying, "God has a hidden agenda, and it is
an evil one."  The devil knew that once Eve doubted the
goodness of God, the temptation would work.

We may not think we doubt God.  But when events happen
in our lives that make us question Him, that's exactly
what we do.  We seldom stop believing in Him, but we do
stop believing in His goodness.  And that is a faith-
poisoning idea!

John Greenleaf Whittier knew that at the center of trust
is a confidence in God's goodness.  He wrote:

        I see the wrong that round me lies,
             I feel the guilt within,
       I hear, with groan and travail cries,
             The world confess its sin.

        Yet, in the maddening maze of things,
            And tossed by storm and flood,
        To one fixed trust my spirit clings:
              I know that God is good!

Never doubt God's goodness.  Even when our trials seem
beyond our understanding, we can trust God to give us
perfect gifts (Jas. 1:17).

                                -- Haddon W. Robinson

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           THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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        Don't put a question mark
        where God has put a period.
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THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  1 Kings 5-7

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