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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Psalm 87 is a little gem. I never began to understood it until I was reading Psalms in Moffatt: “‘Egypt and Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, I count as mine, ... but Sion!—her name shall be Mother, for every follower of Mine belongs to her by birth.’ The Eternal writes of every nation, in His census, ‘This follower of mine was born in it.’”

 

There was a couple in my congregation who were having endless marital friction. Both were sincere members of the church, but their marriage seemed to be hopeless.

 

They came to me saying, “Pastor, it’s useless to try to counsel us! When we got married long ago we were doing everything wrong; we had rebelled against our parents, ran away, went to the world, so that God had nothing to do with our marriage and it’s hopeless for us to try to patch up anything.”

 

As a pastor, I can’t preside over the breakup of a marriage! I didn’t know what to say, but I offered a little silent prayer, “O Lord, please teach me what to say!” Then I remembered Psalm 87, and read it to them. “What’s that got to do with us?” they queried.

 

Then I told them: you two didn’t know the Lord when you married; but when you come to Him (as you have done, both of you), He alters your very birth certificate and declares that you were born in Zion! The blessings of justification by faith are yours from when you first believed!

 

I wish you could have seen their faces when I told them this News. The last I heard they were happy together thereafter.

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