Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
There are many who are bewildered. They do not know where they are going, and they are afraid.
The message of the Bible is just what they need. There are two things that the Lord says they must do—not some difficult to-do thing, but something to believe:
(1) “He that cometh to God must believe that He is ...” (Heb. 11:6, first part).
That’s the “work” you must do! Not something to “do” that is beyond you to accomplish, but a simple step in choosing to believe that God is, He exists. You may be an atheist, but you can take this step by choosing to believe. You must! And you can, for it’s only simple truth.
The atheist may say, “That’s too difficult!” No, it’s the easiest thing any human can “do”—to believe God exists. Just look at the world around you, from the tiniest leaf (that no human can ever “make”) to the unnumbered worlds in the Milky Way.
(2) Step number two, what you MUST believe: “that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him” (second part).
Step number one is that of the “deist,” the person who believes that some mysterious power made the universe and then walked off and left it to care for itself. That kind of “faith” is not good enough.
No one can truly believe in “God” without recognizing that “God IS love [agape]” (1 John 4:8). And right there we go to the cross on which the Son of God died the second death of every human.
The truth is all one package, complete; you can’t select and choose.
Difficult? No; listen to John the Baptist: he says, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world “ (John 1:29). “Behold” means to take a l-o-n-g look; stay on your knees with your “closet” door closed as Jesus says to do in Matthew 6:6: “When thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” He is the same “Father” who notices when a little sparrow falls in the forest floor (Matt. 10:29). Believe, appreciate, revel, in the truth that that same heavenly Father notices you personally.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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