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February 18
Monday


LINCOLN'S
TESTIMONY

READ:
Luke 24:13-27
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Ought not the Christ
to have suffered these
things and to enter into
His glory?
__Luke 24:26
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Abraham Lincoln was a backwoodsman who rose from humble beginnings to the heights of political power. During the dark days of the US Civil War, he served as a compassionate and resolute president. Depression and mental pain were his frequent companions. Yet the terrible emotional suffering he endured drove him to receive Jesus Christ by faith.

Lincoln told a crowd in his hometown in Illinois: "When I left Springfield, I asked the people to pray for me; I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ. I do love Jesus." Life's most painful tragedies can bring us to a deeper understanding of the Savior.

When two men walked the road to Emmaus, they were dumbfounded by the senseless murder of Jesus of Nazareth. Then a stranger joined them and gave scriptural insight about Jesus Himself, and His ministry to them brought comfort.

Heartache has a way of pointing us to the Lord Jesus, who has shared in our sufferings and can bring meaning to seemingly sensless pain. __Dennis Fisher
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````````````Though tragedy, heartache, and sorrow abound``````````
``````````````Just put all your trust in the Savior of light,````````````
```````For He can bring hope in the darkest of night. __D. De Haan`````
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Suffering can teach us what we can't learn
in any other way.

****************Today's Bible Reading __ Luke 24:13-27************

13 Now behold, two of them
were traveling that same day
to a village called
Emmaus.... 14 And they
talked together of all these
things which had happened.

15 So it was, while they
conversed and reasoned, that
Jesus Himself drew near and
went with them. 16 But their
eyes were restrained, so that
they did not know Him.

17 And He said to them,
"What kind of conversation
is this that you have with one
another as you walk and are
sad?"

18 Then the one whose name
was Cleopas answered and
said to Him, "Are You the
only stranger in Jerusalem,
and have You not known the
things which happened there
in these days?"

19 And He said to them,
"What things?" So they said
to Him, "The things
concerning Jesus of Nazareth
... 20 and how the chief
priests and our rulers
delivered Him to be
condemned to death, and
crucified Him. 21 But we
were hoping that it was He
who was going to redeem
Israel. Indeed, besides all
this, today is the third day
since these things
happened...."

25 Then He said to them,
"O foolish ones, and slow of
heart to believe in all that the
prophets have spoken!

26 Ought not the Christ to
have suffered these things
and to enter into His glory?"

27 And beginning at Moses
and all the Prophets, He
expounded to them in all the
Scriptures the things
concerning Himself.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

A recognition of the temporal nature of people and possessions gives
the believer perspective in trusting God in adversity. "Naked I came
from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD
gave, and the LORD has taken away" (Job 1:21). __HDF