Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

It’s one of those early mornings when I cannot sleep; wish I could. But the story (parable) of the Good Shepherd is on my empty heart (Luke 15:3-7). It’s raining and it’s cold, nice to snuggle up in a warm bed; the office is outdoors, but finally I get up and go out and pray, “Father in heaven, please fill my empty heart by ‘pouring in’ afresh the agape-love of Christ for I don’t have a drop left from yesterday (Rom. 5:5). Grant me a morsel of “the bread of life” that I can share with some unknown “friend of mine on his journey” (I don’t know who, far out there around the world) “is come to me..... and I have nothing to set before him” (Luke 11:6; it’s not literal “midnight,” but a little past). Let me be a lowly pipe through which a few drops of “the water of life” can flow to a thirsty heart (John 7:38).

 

The Good Shepherd keeps seeking for His lost sheep “until He finds it” (Luke 15:4). That’s up to when he/she takes that last breath; the lost one may be entangled in hopeless briars and underbrush and has long given up any thought of being “found.” The Shepherd braves the storm, the darkness, the precipices, Himself wounded in His searching; what the lost “sheep” needs to do is just cry in the darkness—He will and must hear. You can’t free yourself, you are hurt; but you must do the most difficult thing you’ve ever done in your whole life—you must believe (1) He loves you with a seeking, never-giving-up- love that is divine, (2) that “this man receives sinners”—you.

 

You must believe He actively forgives you; He was “made to be sin for you who knew no sin” (2 Cor. 5:21), He has “chosen” and “adopted” and actually “predestinated” you to be saved eternally (Eph. 1:4, 5). The thunder rolls through the mountains and the lightning flashes, but the Shepherd cannot go home to rest until He brings you with Him.

 

Think about Him instead of yourself; He needs a little joy—forget your own. Give Him the joy of “calling together His friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with Me, for I have found My sheep that was lost.” Somehow in the process it will rub off on you, “Enter into the joy of your Lord” (Matt. 25:21).

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