Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
My wife and I have a dear friend in a distant city who is battling for her life with an enemy we all fear: cancer. She has a keen mind with rare abilities and also a warm heart that appreciates the love of Christ that constrains us to live for the One who died for us. There are thousands around the world who would lift up a prayer in her behalf, but the Great Physician does not depend on the length of the names on the petitions that are brought to Him in prayer. He loves this individual as much and more than all of us combined. Cancer is His enemy, too; He longs with all His heart to put an end to suffering on this earth. He has promised, “I will come again, and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:1-3, KJV). It’s the language of a long absent Bridegroom assuring His beloved of heart that He will come, and “the marriage of the Lamb” will be at last consummated.
We have another dear friend, someone from India, who has been telling us in our church fellowship of the cruel heart sufferings that women in India have to endure. And this goes on and on in Hinduism there. Pile on top of that all the agonies that people endure in Africa; and yes there are cries of agony that arise to God’s throne from the Western world, the so-called “First World.”
You and I can lay aside our burdens, go to bed at night, and sleep for a few hours; the Lord Jesus cannot enjoy that luxury (Psalm 121:3). He carries all this pain upon His heart (cf. Isa. 63:9). He longs to keep the promise He made to Caiaphas the high priest of the then-true church of that day, “Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven” (Matt. 26:64). But He has to wait until His people today long for His coming as much as He does—long for Him to come more than they long for the pleasures of this sinful world. The Lord Jesus is modest as well as Almighty: He will not enter anyone’s house unless invited (which is why daily “family worship” is so important! Husband and wife are invited to kneel together before Him in prayer).
Our dear friend’s battle reminds us all how mortal we are; if we have only a breath left to us, let us dedicate it to the One who died our second death. It rejoices the heart of the Savior of the world (John 4:42) to see people at least begin to appreciate the length, breadth, depth, and height of the love (agape) His sacrifice has demonstrated (cf. Eph. 3:14-18).
(Someone will ask, How could Christ be resurrected if He died the world’s “second death”? The answer is in Matt. 27:46 and Gal. 3:13).
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