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OUR DAILY BREAD                      Saturday, September 10, 1994
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READ:  Romans 13:11-14



                           "LIGHT AND DARKNESS"

                    "Let us put on the armor of light."

                               Romans 13:12


Kathleen Matson and her family have moved to Tokyo for 3 years.  
Because less than 1 percent of the citizens of Japan believe in 
Jesus Christ, she said that the nation can be considered unreached 
with the gospel.

"As we make our home in Tokyo," she wrote, "I am especially 
challenged by Romans 13:12, 'The night is far spent, the day is at 
hand.  Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us 
put on the armor of light.'  I need to be a light in the midst of 
a great darkness.  My life needs to be a shining example to those 
who have never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ."

Kathleen continued, "The task seems overwhelming... How can I 
possibly do it?  How can I 'owe no one anything except to love one 
another'? (v. 8).  I can't do it alone.  It is only by putting on 
the Lord Jesus Christ (v. 14) that I can meet this urgent need."

The darkness of unbelief is not only to be found in faraway places 
like Irian Jaya or Tokyo or Tibet.  The streets of St. Louis or 
Miami or New York or Toronto are darkened by unbelief as well.  
Wherever we are, our witnessing becomes most effective when 
accompanied with godly living.  May we be lights in the darkness - 
pointing our world to the Source of our light, the Lord Jesus 
Christ.

    - David C. Egner

                          Dim not, little candle
                          Show Jesus through me!
                         Glow brightly till others
                          The Light clearly see!

                                   Adams

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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The smallest light is seen in the darkest night.

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  2 Chronicles 33-36
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