Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

How can we understand the world in which we live? Current history is bewildering, frightening, and confusing.

 

A tidbit of news flashes across the screen—Sweden has the highest number of pleasure boats per capita in the world, higher even than the United States. Darfur has what appears to be the greatest amount of suffering; Niger and neighboring Mali suffer catastrophic hunger from drought and the plague of locusts; the prime rate in the U.S. is up a quarter percent—what does that mean? Meanwhile those who live in the world’s great cities such as London and New York are gripped by a terror that no one seems to know how to conquer. Even our subways frighten us.

 

We come aside and do what Jesus said to do—“shut your door” and pray to our heavenly Father who “sees in secret” (Matt. 6:6): Lord, what does it all mean? Like King Zedekiah in distress, we inquire, “Is there any word from the Lord?” The Lord’s prophet replied immediately, “There is.” It was what the spirit of prophecy had been saying all along, “Repent” (cf. Jer. 37:17).

 

“The word of the Lord” today is that He is not sleeping, nor has He left us “in darkness.” His word is still “a light unto our path” (Psalm 119:105). In Daniel, Revelation, Matthew 24, 2 Timothy 3, etc., He has given us abundant instruction about “the latter times.” “Let not [our] hearts be troubled” (John 14:1-3). When Jesus told us to pray in “secret,” He was amplifying Psalm 91: “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” The context is precisely terrorism: “His truth shall be your shield and buckler. You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,...... nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.” (This must be of special comfort to our boys and girls fighting in Iraq!) What is “the word of the Lord”? “Deny [ourselves] and take up [our] cross daily and follow [Jesus]” (Luke 9:23). Is that “fun”? “At [His] right hand there are pleasures,” peace, even now (Psalm 16:11). Yes! Stay close to Him!

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