Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
The Lord Jesus Christ surprised everybody, shocked them, when He said the opposite of what people expected to hear: “Blessed [happy] are the poor in spirit,.... blessed are those who mourn,.... blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,” etc. (Matt. 5:3-12).
His specialty is comforting the “broken-hearted” people (Psalm 34:18). If you are looking for Jesus, trying to find Him, remember that “the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth” (Eccl. 7:4). “The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit.”
He has plenty of such people to be “near” to. Like the young people who must die of AIDS before they have begun to live—multitudes are “broken hearted.” Some have brought the misery on themselves through sexual promiscuity; if they are “contrite in spirit,” they can sense the Lord is “near” them, too. If, as are many, they are innocent victims (for example, faithful wives of husbands who gave it to them), the Lord Jesus feels for them in a special way. He suffered innocently on His cross; He felt “forsaken” of God, crying out, “My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Read Him in Psalm 22.
Does Jesus merely pity these distressed people? Or does He actually “comfort” them? He promises, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” When they lie down alone to die, He is near to them. “He gives His beloved sleep” (Psalm 127:2). Those who believe we are living in the great Day of Atonement (heart-reconciliation) are blessed by the ministry of “Elijah the prophet” who reconciles alien hearts everywhere (Mal. 4:5, 6). Join him in his reconciling ministry! Give someone some Good News.
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