Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Millions right now experience the anguish of severe tension. Events thousands of miles away are worrisome; crime and corruption at home worry them. Home troubles are so painful often that life is a burden. Sometimes they can hardly face a new day.
They need a Divine Physician of the soul, and they already have one, if only they knew it. His name? Jesus. And He is not merely far off waiting for them to find Him; we read how "Jesus Himself drew near" to His sorrowful, stressed-out disciples (Luke 24:15). He didn't wait for them to draw near to Him! Often we are like Mary in the Garden weeping in utter discouragement, yet Jesus Himself was standing over her, but her eyes were so blinded with tears she could not recognize Him--thought He was the landscape worker (John 20:11-16).
Isaiah emphasizes how near the Lord is to us when we don't realize it: "He is near who justifies me" (50:8, remember that when you are falsely accused!), and His "righteousness is near" (51:5, that means victory over addiction). The Bible does not bill Jesus as a possible Savior IF, IF you put on a virtuoso performance doing everything just right; you read that He is "the Savior of the world" (John 4:42); "the Savior of all men" (1 Tim 4:10). He has laid His loving hand on you already to quiet and calm you. Let His healing virtue flow into your troubled soul as His healing virtue flowed into the woman who touched the hem of His garment in Luke 8:43-48.
So He says in Psalm 37:7: "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him: fret not thyself." Maybe you don't know how to "rest"? Often that's the problem; you are so high strung that even when you go to bed and try to sleep, your nerves are sandpapered. Step one in "resting" is to BELIEVE the Good News the Lord is saying to you! Step two is to make the choice to resign your soul into His hands; identify with Him in Gethsemane and on the cross. Take down the barriers you have erected to shut out the Holy Spirit, and let Him refresh your mind with what happened when Jesus on the cross almost came unglued (read Psalm 22:14-20). Stress and fear combined will kill us unless we "rest" in Him as He hangs on His cross! There is where the healing takes place, every time.
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: March 29, 1999.
Copyright © 2011 by Robert J. Wieland.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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Millions right now experience the anguish of severe tension. Events thousands of miles away are worrisome; crime and corruption at home worry them. Home troubles are so painful often that life is a burden. Sometimes they can hardly face a new day.
They need a Divine Physician of the soul, and they already have one, if only they knew it. His name? Jesus. And He is not merely far off waiting for them to find Him; we read how "Jesus Himself drew near" to His sorrowful, stressed-out disciples (Luke 24:15). He didn't wait for them to draw near to Him! Often we are like Mary in the Garden weeping in utter discouragement, yet Jesus Himself was standing over her, but her eyes were so blinded with tears she could not recognize Him--thought He was the landscape worker (John 20:11-16).
Isaiah emphasizes how near the Lord is to us when we don't realize it: "He is near who justifies me" (50:8, remember that when you are falsely accused!), and His "righteousness is near" (51:5, that means victory over addiction). The Bible does not bill Jesus as a possible Savior IF, IF you put on a virtuoso performance doing everything just right; you read that He is "the Savior of the world" (John 4:42); "the Savior of all men" (1 Tim 4:10). He has laid His loving hand on you already to quiet and calm you. Let His healing virtue flow into your troubled soul as His healing virtue flowed into the woman who touched the hem of His garment in Luke 8:43-48.
So He says in Psalm 37:7: "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him: fret not thyself." Maybe you don't know how to "rest"? Often that's the problem; you are so high strung that even when you go to bed and try to sleep, your nerves are sandpapered. Step one in "resting" is to BELIEVE the Good News the Lord is saying to you! Step two is to make the choice to resign your soul into His hands; identify with Him in Gethsemane and on the cross. Take down the barriers you have erected to shut out the Holy Spirit, and let Him refresh your mind with what happened when Jesus on the cross almost came unglued (read Psalm 22:14-20). Stress and fear combined will kill us unless we "rest" in Him as He hangs on His cross! There is where the healing takes place, every time.
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: March 29, 1999.
Copyright © 2011 by Robert J. Wieland.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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Please forward these messages to your friends and encourage them to subscribe. The "Dial Daily Bread" Web site resides at: http://1888message.org/
To subscribe send an e-mail message with "subscribe" in the body of the message to: dailybread@1888message.org
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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.
