Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

* The text stares at you, telling you to do something you feel you just
can’t do: “Be ye reconciled to God.” It says it with emotional
intensity, “As ambassadors for Christ, we beg you, we plead with you,
we implore you, as though God were on His knees before you begging you
to give in and drop your hatred of Him, your alienation from Him, your
heart-resentment against Him, and let your bitter heart be at-one with
Him!”

* But you can’t. You’ve been through the tsunami.

* You feel He is totally at fault, He has taken your wife, your
husband, your children, all your family, from you and has left you
their bloated, rotting corpses to bury. The loss of your house and
possessions is nothing compared to this. God did it!! Of course you
resent Him! You hate His beautiful blue ocean, too, you never want to
see it again. Why, O why has He done this to you? You have been taught
all your life to believe in Allah.

* And now the Bible says, “Be reconciled to Him!” You wish you had
drowned, too. That would have been the easiest way to go.

* You “survivor” reading this, where you are in comfort, probably
feel miffed at Him for letting you have a fender-bender in the rain. Or
letting you lose at the gaming table. Or get shot at in Iraq. Or catch
AIDS, or cancer. You are the young couple in Sacramento who had just
bought a house and then a drunk drove his car into it and set it and
himself on fire. Why did You do it, or let him do it?

* Or, in Paul’s Corinth,--God is the One who lets you be the Roman
slave to spend your life walking barefoot while others worse than you
ride in chariots.

* Well, the same Christ who begs you “be reconciled to God” is in
the darkness naked before the world, in torture, screaming, “Why, O why,
have You forsaken Me?” Not, I am tempted to feel that way, no; You
did it! You abandoned Me! And if I don’t reconcile Myself to You, the
world and the universe are lost forever. I can’t! but I must; and He did.
See Psalm 22, 69.

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