<x-tad-bigger>Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Let me introduce you to a friend with whom you can have fellowship:
David, King David, the man who wrote many of the psalms, the man who
was a very bad sinner but was deep-hearted repentant. God gave him the
most unusual “gift” anyone has ever had--very intimate fellowship with
Christ in His sufferings (cf. Phil. 3:10 for the phrase). In other
words, David was permitted to taste firsthand by prolepsis the
experiences which the Son of God must go through in order to become
effective as our Savior. Contact was made.
David, of course, was 100 per cent human, and totally a sinner. He was
as down low a sinner as anybody, yet God permitted him to feel what
Christ felt and to write it up so we can taste it, too. The fellowship
went both ways: David felt as Christ felt, and Christ felt as the
lowdown sinner feels. Which simply means that Christ felt as you
feel--guilty, polluted, condemned. The only sinless human Being can
feel compassion and sympathy for someone who has made a mess of
his/her life and feels guilty. The sincere Roman Catholic may long to
find a sympathetic priest to kneel before and pour out his/her heart
in bitter, shameful confession; but the Lord Jesus, the Son of God,
the world’s Savior, the One who was “made to be sin for us who knew no
sin”(2 Cor. 5:21), the One who alone has come from the bosom of the
Father, He is your only true Father-confessor. As you kneel alone
before Him and let the bitter tears fall, and wait before Him in quiet
loneliness, your heart open, with David’s psalms also open before you,
the two-way fellowship happens.
Where can you find this fellowship with Christ in David’s psalms?
Scattered all through, but especially 22, 69, 40, 27, 119, 142, etc.,
etc. And don’t forget #23--you need it, too.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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