Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Our Sacramento Bee had a prominent article today entitled “Will Oscar Go Dark?” At the same time there was the story of the young Hollywood actor (28), Heath Ledger, who took an overdose and killed himself.
Yes, “Oscar” will go dark; actors who spend their lives “acting,” seeking to talk and act as though they are somebody else, are immersing themselves in basic fiction; and for them, a life of truth is strange. Just to say something that is 100% true is contrary to their career.
We pity any young man of 28 who has known so much adulation, ending his life. But he had unwittingly alienated himself from truth, and found himself spiritually bankrupt for want of truth. The Bible says that God the Father is the “LORD [caps] God of truth” (Psalm 31:5, the sacred name of the Eternal One). It’s close to the statement in 1 John 4:8 that “God IS love” [agape].
We pity the victims of the fiction industry (monumentally remunerative); but should we as people awaiting the second coming of Christ patronize the fiction? We don’t need to buy tickets and go to the theaters to imbibe their spirit; we can watch them endlessly on our TV.
As we come closer to the end, church discipline will not tighten up to be extreme; but those who “follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth” (Rev. 14:4, 5) will voluntarily hunger more and more for the rock bottom reality of solid truth.
Jesus prays in His prayer to His Father just before His death, concerned for us, “Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth” (John 17:17).
A prayer that the LORD God of truth is happy to hear and answer in the affirmative is one that the Lord may give us an appetite, a hunger, for truth, a yearning for it before we close our eyes in sleep at night; a yearning for it (more than even for breakfast) as soon as we awaken in the morning.
The Father awakened His Son Jesus in the mornings; He will awaken us too, making alarm clocks unnecessary, if we want Him to (see Isa. 50:4, 5).
Moses is spoken of as the servant of the Lord; when the Lord called him, he got up immediately in ready answer; not grudgingly, but eager to know what else the Lord might say to him. Come to the Lord, confess your backwardness spiritually, ask forgiveness, and rejoice in answered prayer! You will hunger more and more for the coming of the Lord Jesus.
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