As you keep up with the media news, is your heart tempted to be afraid?
The more human you are, the more you sense that fear! You can see yourself trying to live in the midst of terrorism, plus all the uncertainties of your normal life aside from the terror elsewhere in the world!
Your heavenly "phone" is ringing--answer it; your heavenly Father is calling you. David heard his "phone" ringing: "When You said, 'Seek My face,' my heart said to You, 'Your face, LORD, I will seek'" (Psalm 27:8). Some twenty times Moses is spoken of as "the servant of the Lord," which means that when the LORD woke Moses in the morning and said, "Seek My face," I have something to tell you, Moses would get out of bed and go and kneel before the Lord, and "listen," no matter how early it was.
It was the same with Jesus when He was a boy, a youth, and in His young manhood. It was fun to sleep late in the mornings, but He answered His "phone" when the Father called Him: "The LORD God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. ... And I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away" (Isa. 50:4, 5).
Your heavenly Father is just as concerned for you as He was for His Son Jesus. Remember the simple but often forgotten biblical truth--that the day BEGINS at sundown. Don't fritter away the evening in watching nonsense so you are physically exhausted when the heavenly Father calls you on your heavenly "phone" "morning by morning." Why impoverish yourself by missing all those private tête-à-têtes with the same Father in heaven who taught His Son Jesus every new morning? Yes, He wants to encourage you, to deliver you from your personal fear; but more than that, "morning by morning" He wants to teach you what to say during this new day to someone else "who is weary."
The same LORD woke the child Samuel in the morning and spoke to him. Ah yes, staying snug and warm in bed is cozy fun; and maybe He is not calling you to be a prophet; but for sure He is calling you to help someone else "who is weary." So answer your "phone." And this is what you say: "Speak, LORD, for Your servant hears" (1 Sam. 3:10).
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: Aril 29, 2002.
Copyright © 2010 by Robert J. Wieland.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Please forward these messages to your friends and encourage them tosubscribe. The "Dial Daily Bread" Web site resides at: http://1888message.org/dailybread/
To subscribe send an e-mail message with "subscribe" in the body of the message to: dailybread@1888message.org
To un-subscribe click on this link: Unsubscribe me from this contact list
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert J. Wieland's inspirational "Dial Daily Bread" messages are availalbe via e-mail to anyone who wishes to receive a daily portion of uplifting Good News. "Dial Daily Bread" is FREE. Due to travel or other circumstances, there may be intervals when "Dial Daily Bread" will not be sent.
