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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

It was a memorable Presidents’ Day weekend as we sought to remember our two most prominent February-born presidents. One devoted his life to establishing the Union of the states that formed the American republic; the other devoted his life to preserving its Union.

 

Both cherished a sober reverence for the Deity and sensed His leading in the crises of American history. Both in their most enlightened moments understood the Deity to be the Father of humanity’s Lord Jesus Christ who is the Savior of the world, and they sensed that the Godhead comprised the heavenly Father, the Son, and what was then termed the Holy Ghost, one God, one Lord. Both presidents were Protestant in their religious conviction; but both firmly believed that Providence was leading the new nation into complete religious liberty, a separation of church and state. Evidence indicates that both presidents wanted the “church” to be faithful to its duty to proclaim reverence for the holy law of God, to proclaim what they dimly conceived to be a righteousness by faith, the best they could understand at that time. Both of our revered February presidents were Protestant by deep conviction, both wanted Europe’s devotion to the papacy to remain foreign to these shores; both sensed therein a threat to the security and prosperity of this nation.

 

The news from the media on Presidents’ Day weekend was disturbing: deep, bitter, and bloody conflict between Islam and the West; a victory of Hamas in Palestine that threatens to undo the “progress” that we have gained in Iraq; deep and bitter divisions in our own political homeland; ominous evidences of moral corruption “in high places.”

 

And yet among those who cherish the special message of Daniel and Revelation there are also divisions and perplexities: as we await Heaven’s outpouring of the “latter rain” (the same Holy Spirit of which Pentecost was the “former rain”), how can we distinguish between a premature counterfeit “outpouring” and the genuine to follow? It’s time to be sober, to think clearly, to walk softly.

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

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