Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
A wise and gifted writer once said that ”Love is a precious gift, which we receive from Jesus” (Ministry of Healing, p. 358). When, after 66+ years of such preciousness, one of the two has to go, the loss the other feels is enormous. The deeper one has loved, the more painful the loss.
But the absent one is “safe in the arms of Jesus,” as an old hymn says. From the moment sleep came until the resurrection morning is for her hardly a second of time; but the grieving one is left alone.
But not alone: the tears pour out and one cries in anguish, but the shortest verse in the Bible takes over: “Jesus wept” (John 11:35). His comfort is as great as His inexhaustible supply of much more abounding grace (Rom. 5:20).
He wept at a funeral where Mary and Martha were grieving; He wept in sympathy with them but also in sympathy with everyone who all through time would weep in bereavement.
So close to us has the Son of God come in His incarnation! He knows what painful loss is; He knows also the more bitter pain of divorce which so often involves the agony of rejection from love.
If in time of suffering your lonely heart cries out “Father! Father!” you can be happy for one wonderful encouragement: it means that the Father has adopted you as a child into His family (consider what Rom. 8:14-17 says). You can walk past all the holy angels directly to His throne because you are now more than any of the angels: you are family!
Verse 14: step one—you are not resisting the Holy Spirit; where He leads you follow. Thank Him!
Verse 15: step two—you do not resist the good news; you believe that the Father has adopted you!
Verse 16: step three, the Holy Spirit manifests agreement with our human “spirit” that it’s true! We are the children of God!
Verse 17: step four, here comes the dessert, purest 2 + 2 = 4 reasoning: being children means we are “heirs of God.” Conclusion: heaven and the wide universe have become ours. An idea too big to be true?
It is true. Inheritors of the vast universe. The Milky Way has become ours “in Christ.”
So why the weeping and wailing when we occasionally now have “the fellowship of [Christ’s] suffering”? (Phil. 3:10).
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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