Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Has there been some mystery in your life that has always perplexed you? Like the untimely loss and death of a loved one; of the crushing disappointment of a love lost, or betrayed, that you had hoped would lead to a happy marriage?
When Jesus told us how to pray (to “our Father which art in heaven”), He told us of the only way we can find peace and reconciliation with God after such bitter disappointment.
Our heavenly Father is infinite; at first thought, this truth may tempt us to wonder if the comfort He can give us is real and effective; how can it be if the Father is an infinite being?
Don’t forget that He was also the “our Father which art in heaven” to Jesus during His 33-1/2 years of sojourn with us in this human life. Whatever the Father was to Jesus, He is the same to us. His being infinite does not in the least lessen the personal attention He gives to us each one.
Take for example, the way that the Father in heaven manifested Himself to Jesus (as a teenager?) when He awakened Him from sleep early in the mornings.
The story is in Isaiah 50:4, 5: “The Lord God hath give Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth Mine ear to hear as the learned.”
As a Teenager or as a Youth (Jesus was a Youth all His life among us here!), He loved to sleep in each morning; teens are proverbially difficult to awaken in the morning!
But the heavenly Father (the same as your Heavenly Father!) persisted in waking Jesus up to start each new day.
Jesus had to go to school! He had to learn how to “speak a word in season” to the weary crowds, or to the solitary inquirer like Nicodemus who “came to Jesus by night” long after office doors should be closed! (John 3:2, 3). Those early morning awakenings and “schoolings” taught Jesus the wisdom He needed so desperately, which is why He said, “I can of Mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge; ... because I seek not Mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent Me” (5:30).
That same “our Father which art in heaven” will awaken us and teach us, day by day!
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