OUR DAILY BREAD                      Sat., January 28, 1995
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READ:  Jude 20-25

              THE STRENGTH OF OUR BRIDGE

      "To Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,
           and to present you faultless...,
                be glory and majesty."

                                - Jude 24-25

Robert Louis Dabney was an outstanding Presbyterian
theologian during the mid-19th century.  He served as
a minister, as a chaplain, as chief of staff to
General Stonewall Jackson, and as a seminary professor.
He also helped establish a seminary in Austin, Texas.

As he aged, Dabney began to worry about his impending
death, and he expressed his fears in a letter to former
student and theologian, C. R. Vaughan.  Dabney wondered
about his ability to die honorably and to hold on to
his Christian faith.

Vaughan replied:  "Dear friend, let me advise you now as
you often have me.  If you were about to cross a deep
chasm, and there were a bridge over it, would you
stand there looking in at yourself, wondering if you
trusted enough in bridges to be able to cross?  Or
would you not rather go and examine the beams and
timbers of the bridge and the quality of its construc-
tion, and determine whether the bridge were trustworthy,
and then pass over it in confidence?  Our faith is in
Christ; spend yourself focusing on Him and His suffi-
ciency, rather than on yourself."

Do you have doubts about dying?  Remember, God "is
able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you
faultless before the presence of His glory" (Jude 24-25).

                                -- Haddon W. Robinson

        We who love Jesus are walking by faith,
            Not seeing one step that's ahead;
     Not doubting one moment what our lot may be,
            But looking to Jesus instead.

                                -- Fields

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           THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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          Faith focuses on God
         instead of the problem.

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Leviticus 1-4

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