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Our Daily Bread - Thursday, April 15, 2016
by RBC Ministries

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SPOONFUL OF SUGAR

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The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
-Psalm 19:9-10

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
1 Samuel 27-29
Luke 13:1-22

Where is Mary Poppins when you need her? I know this sounds as if I'm longing for the good old days when cheerfully unrealistic movies featured characters like this fictional nanny, but what I'm really longing for are people with a vision for the future that is realistically optimistic. I yearn for joyful, creative people who can show us the positive side of what we consider negative, who can remind us that "just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down."
David wrote a song that expressed a similar truth. In his words, "the judgments of the LORD" are "sweeter also than...honey" (Psalm 19:9-10). Seldom do we hear that truth is sweet. More often we hear that it is bitter or hard to swallow. But truth is so much more than medicine to treat what's wrong. It's the diet that will prevent the disease. It's not an inoculation or an injection. It's a gourmet meal that should be presented as a culinary delight, enticing the hungry to "taste and see that the LORD is good" (34:8).
We sing "Jesus is the sweetest name I know," but some of us present Him as if He's gone sour. Pure truth, untainted by pride, is the sweetest, most refreshing taste of all to those who hunger for spiritual sustenance. And we have the privilege of serving it to a starving world. - Julie Ackerman Link
Jesus is the sweetest name I know,
And He's just the same as His lovely name,
And that's the reason why I love Him so;
Oh, Jesus is the sweetest name I know. - Long

The truth of the LORD endures forever. - Psalm 117:2

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