Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Imagine the joy you would feel if you were saved from death either from

drowning, or illness, or an accident; you are ever after elated. Can
you even begin to imagine the infinitely greater joy you would feel if
you could realize you have been saved from what the Bible calls “the
second death”?

When old Simeon “blessed” Mary the mother of Baby Jesus in the
Temple,
he told her that “a sword shall pierce through thy own soul” (Luke
1:34, 35). The word he used was the Greek one for Goliath’s enormous
sword, thus describing the pain that she would know at the crucifixion
of her Son. Probably no other human has felt quite the extent of that
pain: she knew that His conception and birth were that of a virgin; she

knew the angel had announced it all to her; she knew His righteous,
loving character as no one else could know; and yet now He is stripped
naked, crucified like a common criminal before her eyes. Greater than
her concern for her own salvation was the anxiety she felt for the
world and the very universe of God--is the plan of salvation a failure?

Is the great controversy lost? How she agonized! Has any other human
been so stricken with any “sword” that pierces the “soul”?

She must have been in such pain through the long weekend Jesus lay in
His tomb. Now imagine her soul-bursting joy when He is risen! That is
the same joy God wants us to know. But we must not remain infants
spiritually: we must “grow up unto the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4:13), so our heart can be stretched
outsize
enough to savor what has happened, to appreciate what He has done for
us.

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