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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

There are many places in the world where Satan has intervened to do his horrible work of injustice and cruelty. The cry of the “labourers who have reaped down [the] fields [of the rich men] which is.... kept back by fraud, crieth” all over the world. Wicked people have even “condemned and killed the just” (cf. James 5:1-6, KJV). Perhaps the most visible example just now is Darfur; and the daily litany of suicide bombs and murders in Iraq is distressing to anyone who thinks about the gospel of peace that fills the Bible.

 

Is this God’s will that this horror go on and on, year after year, decade after decade? How can we enjoy our pleasure and our gourmet food and luxuries knowing that our “neighbors” are suffering (yes, Darfur and Bagdhad are our neighborhood according to Jesus!)?

 

Actually, it has never been God’s will that such evil prevail on earth. When God made His New Covenant promises to Abraham in Genesis 12, He intended that they be enjoyed by all of Abraham’s descendants—that is, those who had “the faith of Abraham” who should not revel alone in their delightful inheritances while the world around them perishes; God’s plan was that their very presence should be a blessing to the world. He said to Abraham, “In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (vs. 3, KJV).

 

“All families”? That must include Darfur; and Iraq. We read that “God preached.... the gospel unto Abraham” (Gal. 3:8), meaning that those who believe in Jesus can be a blessing even to Abraham’s literal but unbelieving descendants, the political Israel of today; God is distressed at the suicide bombings there, as anywhere.

 

It’s an enormous thought to try to think through: if Abraham’s true descendants in Jesus will proclaim the pure gospel that calls God’s people out of “Babylon,” even the Muslims in Darfur and Iraq and the Jews in Israel will in some way be “blessed.”

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

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