Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

The big headline in our local newspaper read, “New Orleans Given Up for Lost.” As we sympathize with those poor people who have lost everything, our hearts go out to them in their suffering. A mat on the floor in the Astrodome in Houston for literally months to come is small comfort. Never have Americans in their own homeland suffered as these people must suffer now. Through the news media we all share their pain. It is becoming our pain.

 

As our human hearts are touched by it all, how does God feel? We can taste the agony He feels when His people suffer so as we read the little-known Lamentations of Jeremiah. Jerusalem was “given up for lost” two times (the Babylonian conquest in 486 B.C. and the Roman in 70 A.D.). Jeremiah recorded vividly the feelings of the people, much like that of the citizens of New Orleans. “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,...... The children and the infants faint in the streets of the city” (Lam. 1:12; 2:11). God, who is a Person and who feels anguish, felt the people’s anguish. “In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them” (Isa. 63:9). We can say, that refers only to people who believe in Him; and surely He hears their prayers. But God also has compassion on spiritual “infants,” those who have never learned of His character, who do not know Him, have never understood His gospel of good news. They are human beings in need. A sobriety is taking over the thinking of the people.

 

There is a growing-up, a spiritual maturity process, going on in America. The people of ancient Jerusalem have taught us a lesson: we must not rebel against God: “Let us search out and examine our ways, and turn back to the Lord; let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven” (Lam. 3:40).

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