Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Do you ever have a gut feeling sweep over your soul that you are “the chief of sinners” (1 Tim.
Don’t despair! The great Holy Spirit of God may at last be working deep in your heart. God Himself is noticing you like He notices when a little humming bird falls on the forest floor—that’s something! God in heaven is teaching you as if you were a student in His classroom. He honors you!
You become really sure that you are indeed “a child of God” when you sense that He Himself is chastising you: “ ‘My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son when He receives’ ” (Heb. 12:5, 6).
We have generally thought that refers to our getting sick, or getting in an accident, or some such bad luck. But in fact, it’s the work of the Holy Spirit convicting us of sin itself (John 16:8). Paul experienced a healthy “Christian experience” which illustrates what it means to live in tune with God on this great Day of Atonement, this cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary (cf. Dan. 8:14). To sense that indeed you are genuinely, truly, not merely rhetorically, “less than the least of all saints” (Eph. 3:8) is not an unhealthy experience. It may be the beginning of your at-last deep conversion. You are at last actually experiencing what Zechariah 12:10-13:1 is talking about. Not until Moses was at last deeply humbled before God was it possible for his face to shine with the light of heaven, light that astonished the people (Ex. 34:35).
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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