OUR DAILY BREAD             Sunday, July 16 1995    
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READ:  Luke 15:11-32

                
                  IT MAKES SENSE

        When he came to himself, he said, 
    "... I will arise and go to my father, and
    will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned.'"

                                -- Luke 15:17-18

In his book "Life After God," Douglas Coupland writes
about Scout, a member of "the first generation raised
without religion."  Scout lost his wife and son because
she "just stopped being in love."  He trafficked in
drugs and lived in a spiritual wasteland, but for an
instant at least he "came to his senses."

Scout confessed, "My secret is that I need God --
that I am sick and can no longer make it alone.  I
need God to help me give, because I no longer seem
capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer
seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem
beyond being able to love."

Scout may not know it, but he has taken the first
step toward God.

In the story Jesus told about the prodigal son, a
young man left home and wasted his inheritance.  
When his money was all gone, he took a job tending
pigs, feeling the gnawing hunger in his belly.  He
thought about home, his dad, and his father's hired
men.  And "he came to himself" (Lk. 15:17).  Changing
his mind about the direction his life had been going,
he decided to go back home and admit how wrong he
had been.

How about you?  Have you come to your senses?

                        -- Haddon W. Robinson

                    THINK ABOUT IT

  Have you ever decided to trust Christ as your Savior?
  Is there sin in your life that needs to be confessed?
   Doesn't it make sense to accept the Father's love?

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             THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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       A broken heart is the first step
            to spiritual wholeness.
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THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Proverbs 15-18

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