Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Two men, 90, meet in their little foothills town after 20 years of separation, one having been felled by Alzheimers, the other apparently in fine health. Both were servants of the Lord Jesus, proclaimed the gospel as best they knew it, were faithful to the light the Lord had given them. One is in the casket, the other conducting the memorial service.

 

Why was one stricken, and not the other?

 

Millions around the world would like to know, but the Lord does not grant us that privilege; the elder who survives realizes that he has not an iota of merit—every ounce of mental or physical life granted him these two decades is only lent to him so that he senses a constant obligation to consecrate his all to the One who is the Savior of them both.

 

Why some people must suffer and others go free gets a good discussion in the Bible. Jesus Himself takes on the problem in Luke 13. An accident had happened in Jerusalem in which a “tower” fell on eighteen people and killed them; could have been an accident in building, or a contractor’s cheating, as sometimes happens. People thought the 18 must have been especially “worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem,” but Jesus emphatically said, “I tell you, no”! (vss. 2-5).

 

Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is simply the possible lot of all humans who survive infancy, only to meet tragedy some other time or place. Jesus speaks up decidedly to defend the victims; they are just as dear to the heart of God as those who never meet it. Jesus classified the “18” as in no way more guilty than us all, but added that repentance is equally incumbent on us all—a truth proud humans don’t like to face.

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