Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

We just received a letter from a Christian man in Zambia (Africa). He tells of the blessings he has received in reading some of my writings (which have been widely circulated in Africa, where I spent 24 years).

 

He calls himself “a peasant farmer.” He writes page 2 as a plea for me to send him American dollars so he can buy food to feed his starving children. Drought has ruined his crops, and the well where he and his fellow villagers draw water has dried up. He writes an excellent, courteous letter; I have no reason to doubt its utter truthfulness. I do not know him personally; I never lived in Zambia.

 

I must respond positively. Said Jesus, “Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away” (Matt. 5:42). A check would do him no good, and a Western Union Money order would eat up a considerable portion in fees, and he probably wouldn’t be easily able to cash it. If I send him some cash and ask him not to tell others, that would be selfish of me (just let the word get out that a letter to this strange person in America brings American dollars!). Yet how can I sit in judgment on all the letters I receive as to which represents genuine need? How can I help him? If I give him a “fish,” it will soon be eaten up; how can I teach him thousands of miles away to “fish”?

 

As the holiday season comes on us, I cannot, I must not, forget Jesus; it is He who tells us in His word that we are living in the world’s grand Day of Atonement—the one day in the ancient Levitical year when the Lord called for fasting. We can’t fast all the time, of course, in this antitypical Day of Atonement; but we can live humbly in the presence of the Lord, in self-denial, and not feast to the point of obesity while multitudes of fellow humans as dear to Christ as we are, starve.

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

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