Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

If we love the Good News of the gospel of Christ, we will not want to
argue about the nature of Christ. We will want to flee from any place
where such contention arises. The nearness of the divine Savior is too
holy, too solemn, too most precious, to be submitted to the verbal
violence of theological crossfire.

If one hungers to know Jesus more intimately, there is no book in the
Bible where you see Him more closely bound with yourself in your human
nature than in the book of Psalms. The divine Son of God has become one
of us! The fact that Jesus ascended to heaven in the sight of His
apostles (Luke 24:51) doesn’t mean that He is far away. “Behold,” He
said just before He ascended, “I send the promise of the Father upon
you” (vs. 49). That “promise” is the Holy Spirit, the presence of Jesus
in the Spirit. “I will not leave you orphans,” Jesus assured them, “I
will come to you” (John 14:18).

How does He “come” to us? Not in the flesh; there is a closer nearness
than that. It’s “dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, abiding
under the shadow of the Almighty” through the Word (Psalm 91:1). It’s
sharper in clarity than any DVD can be, you “see” Him, “behold” Him as
“the Lamb of God,” in those Messianic psalms.

In this way you “abide in [Him] and [His] words abide in you” (John
15:7). The four Gospels are wonderful revelations of Jesus; but when He
walked with Cleopas and his friend that Sunday afternoon to Emmaus,
Jesus didn’t have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to quote--just the Old
Testament, largely the Psalms. But it was there that “He expounded unto
them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Luke
24:13-27, KJV).

Now, you join those three as they walk together, the two disciples as
they listen, Jesus as He “expounds.” “Constrain” Him to “abide with
you” when it’s “toward evening, and the day is far spent,” instead of
seeking TV or silly entertainment. Your eyes will be “opened” and like
those two you will come to “know Him,” too. And then, as surely as day
follows night, the time will come when you will say, “Did not [my]
heart burn within [me], . . . while He [opened] to [me] the
scriptures?” (vss. 29-32, KJV). Yes! Thank God!

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