Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Under the New Covenant, everywhere we turn we face a happy thought: the gospel is better good news than we have assumed. It’s true even in the Lord’s Prayer that we re-prayed yesterday:

 

(a) “Our Father in heaven.” He loves us too much to coddle or encourage us in popular feelings of spiritual arrogance (the “rich and.... have need of nothing” complex, Rev. 3:17). “What son is there whom a father does not chasten?.... We have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?” (Heb. 12:7, 9). If you pray the Lord’s Prayer, you thank Him for His discipline.

 

(b) Those times when we have imagined He was against us, when mysterious troubles and even heartaches overwhelmed us, were evidences of our Father’s special attentive love. Two of His New Covenant promises are: “I will.... make your name great; and you shall be a blessing” (Gen. 12:2). Our Father cannot give us those blessings unless He has disciplined us first! All this apparent punishment we have endured “yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it” (Heb. 12:11). Yes, perk up! He leads you.

 

(Time out for a moment: in case anyone wonders, are those Genesis 12 promises actually the New Covenant? Read Galatians 3:8; 4:24-27.)

 

(c) “And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one” (Matt. 6:13). If you think you are not as pretty as someone else, or as super-manly, you are being “led” out of “temptation,” exactly as you have been praying for all along! The Lord can slow you down for a moment and flash into your memory when He has “delivered” you from stumbling into some “horrible pit” (Psalm 40:2). An example: the “pit” of entanglement with a “strange woman” [or strange man!] (Prov. 22:14; 23:27). Regarding that particular “pit,” we read, “He who is abhorred of the LORD will fall there.” We have enough to rejoice about to keep us smiling for many days! He loves us!

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

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