Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

It’s a phenomenon that shows up sadly in almost every disaster: survivors who have no food or water fight like wild animals when a little becomes available. Let’s give them the benefit of every doubt—they are parents grabbing what they can for their hungry children. But still, whoever grabs deprives someone else.

 

Let’s pause a moment and pray that the Lord may prepare us for if or when our turn may come to be hungry “survivors.” In Psalm 19:12-14 we find the right prayer to pray:

 

(1) “Who can understand his errors?” [we don’t know what is buried in our sinful nature! It’s good to realize the truth about our potential apart from Christ].

(2) “Cleanse me from secret faults” [the most terrible sins are the unconscious ones. Jesus prayed for His murderers, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34)]. We don’t know what we’re capable of doing when temptation becomes strong enough. Now is the time to ask, “Cleanse me.... !”

(3) “Keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me” [when I am finally tempted to let go of self-control, O Lord, save me in that hour! Let not self gain the victory! Let me practice today taking up my cross to follow Jesus and may self be “crucified with Him” (Gal. 2:20)].

(4) “Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great transgression” [the stakes now are high; it’s time for “144,000” to “follow the Lamb wherever He goes,.... without fault before the throne of God” (Rev. 14:1-5). No, we’re not jockeying for the highest places; what we want is to honor Christ in the “great controversy” hour of final trial. It’s He who deserves a crown, not we].

(5) “Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer” [today; amen and amen].

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