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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

A Mr. Gugino is an Army veteran in Pearlington, Mississippi, one of the thousands who have to “start again” after Katrina. He doesn’t know what to do. All his construction tools are ruined. He voices the feelings of many: “God came at us with a vengeance. I can’t understand it.”

 

I don’t know how to reach Mr. Gugino; if I could, I would tell him:

 

(1). It wasn’t God who came at you with that apparent “vengeance. “ (2). It was Satan; even so, you “can’t understand it,” for why did God permit him to do it? Worse than losing your construction tools would be the tragedy of losing your confidence in the God who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Father of us all. (3). Dear man, let’s face the truth: your new name just now is “Mr. Job,” the man who has a book named for him in the Bible. He too had lost everything in “natural disasters”—his family of children included. And when the book begins, we see him sitting on a pile of ashes in physical pain and total wretchedness (2:8). (4) But his physical torture is the least of his problems: his wife now turns against him too (vs. 9), and still worse, (5), he now exists with the unspeakable horror of thinking that his life-long Friend, God, has done all this to him (1:21; 2:10)! If he could know that Satan has done it, he could still be happy trusting in God, but he doesn’t “feel” that blessed truth. The result: Job is in the pit. Is this familiar?

 

Yes, your name is Job; but Job’s name is another name for Jesus Christ who cried out on His cross in identical agony, feeling hopeless, “My God, why have You forsaken Me?” But His Father had not forsaken Him! And neither has He forsaken you; what you can’t understand, choose to believe. I can’t talk to you, but please believe that God is still love (1 John 4:8).

Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.

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