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Daily Devotionals

• No Risk
  

  

  A colleague recently shared an experience I don’t intend to try personally—bungee jumping. I found his description of the event both fascinating and terrifying. To think of jumping headfirst from a bridge hundreds of feet in the air suspended only by a giant rubber band is not my idea of a good time. But his leap was not without support. He described not one, but two heavy-duty harnesses that secured him to his lifeline—and to safety. The careful design and proven testing of those harnesses gave him great confidence as he jumped into the air.

  

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• Strength Of A Man
  

  

  Some years ago I found myself in an elevator with a couple of men. It was late at night, and we all looked weary. The elevator came to a stop, and a larger-than-life cowboy ambled in, wearing a battered hat, an old, stained sheepskin coat, and rundown logger boots. He looked us up and down, met our eyes, and growled, “Good evening, men.” All of us straightened up and squared our shoulders. We were trying to live up to the name.

  

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• To God Be The Glory
  

  

  When Jason was asked to sing at a church he was visiting, he was delighted to participate even though he wasn’t asked until a few minutes before the service started. He chose a familiar hymn, “To God Be the Glory,” because it was a song that was especially meaningful to him. He practiced it a few times in the church basement and sang it without accompaniment in the church service.

  

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• Imaginary Friend?
  

  

  Not long ago, I heard about this billboard along the highway: “God is an imaginary friend—choose reality. It will be better for all of us.”

  

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• Stay Connected
  

  

  I woke up one morning and discovered that my Internet connection was not working. My service provider conducted some tests and concluded that my modem needed to be replaced, but the earliest they could do so was the next day. I panicked a little when I thought about being without the Internet connection for 24 hours! I thought, How am I going to survive without it?

  

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Daily Devotionals By Oswald Chambers

• Keep Recognizing Jesus
  

  . . . Peter . . . walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid . . . —Matthew 14:29-30

  The wind really was boisterous and the waves really were high, but Peter didn’t see them at first. He didn’t consider them at all; he …

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• Beware of Criticizing Others
  

  Judge not, that you be not judged —Matthew 7:1

  Jesus’ instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, “Don’t.” The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism …

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• “Will You Lay Down Your Life?”
  

  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. . . . I have called you friends . . . —John 15:13, 15

  Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. Peter said to the Lord, “I will lay …

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• Get Moving! (2)
  

  Also . . . add to your faith . . . —2 Peter 1:5

  In the matter of drudgery. Peter said in this passage that we have become “partakers of the divine nature” and that we should now be “giving…

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• Get Moving! (1)
  

  Abide in Me . . . —John 15:4

  In the matter of determination. The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by way of the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I then have…