Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
It’s wrong when we go through life, even into old age, with no understanding of our own ugly sinfulness. If so, Robert Burns’ poem/prayer has never been answered for us that we might see ourselves as “ithers see us.”
Sometimes in courts of law a criminal has been found guilty and is brought in for sentencing. His victims (or if deceased, their relatives) are permitted to denounce him and vent their rage against him. Often, especially when he manifests no remorse, they consign him to an eternally burning hell. But there is no redemption in these bitter diatribes.
Much better for the Holy Spirit to tell us the bad truth about ourselves, for when He “convicts.... of sin” (John 16:8), no matter how deep and horrible it was, there is always Good News in what He says to us. It’s News to be welcomed wholeheartedly.
The greatest tragedy that can come upon one is to finish one’s life span in blissful ignorance of one’s true character before God and before the world. The reason is that we will inexorably come into final judgment when we “appear before the judgment seat of Christ” and look Him straight in the eyes. Even though we have participated in murdering Him “afresh” (Heb. 6:6), He may not say cruel diatribes to condemn us; He may keep still. But the lost will condemn themselves—bitterly (cf Rev. 20:12). There will be no salvation in the sad experience.
This precisely was the purpose in the Day of Atonement once a year in the sanctuary (Lev. 16; 23). It was to symbolize the grand, final Day of Atonement, wherein we live today. God’s final message of love to the world is that deep conviction of sin brought by the loving work of the Holy Spirit. Thank the Father for it! There’s salvation in it.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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