Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
At any given moment in your life, the only news that the Lord has for you is good news. But you are being bombarded with the bad news that Satan wants you to accept and believe. If you are a teen in school, he wants you to believe that you will fail that test that's coming up, or that the boy or girl you really like will reject you, that you won't be able to get a good job, that you'll never be able to drive a decent car.
I don't need to elaborate further, for you already know his repertoire of doom he specializes in. Believing Satan's bad news makes for an unhappy life and you don't want that; and the Lord, your heavenly Father, doesn't want that for you.
Why can I be so bold as to say that the only news the Lord has for you is good news? (And this is not only for teens: it's never too late for teens already grown up to learn to believe the good news that the heavenly Father has for you.)
Here is that word of the Lord ready for you to choose to believe with all your heart: "I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope" (Jer. 29:11). You may ask, How can I know this is addressed to me? I have made wrong choices, I have done evil, I have broken the Lord's holy law; maybe I'm done for!
Read the context of what your heavenly Father has just told you: the Lord's people in Jeremiah's day had done gross evil (the book of Jeremiah is full of the story). One very bad thing: the entire nation had committed the equivalent of national adultery. And very many of the people had gone on and committed the personal deed, as well (vs. 23). Yet the Lord wanted them to repent and accept His forgiveness; Jeremiah was pleading for a national repentance; so with you, the only "thoughts" the Lord has for you are "thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."
Yes, you may know that you have sinned; you deserve only failure and pain and disappointment; but the worst sin you can commit is to abandon your heart to anger against Him (it's not His fault!) and reject His forgiveness.
Now let the "grace of God that brings salvation … to all people" teach you to say "No!" to that hellish temptation (Titus 2:11-13; cf. NIV).
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: April 12, 2008.Copyright © 2011 by Robert J. Wieland.
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At any given moment in your life, the only news that the Lord has for you is good news. But you are being bombarded with the bad news that Satan wants you to accept and believe. If you are a teen in school, he wants you to believe that you will fail that test that's coming up, or that the boy or girl you really like will reject you, that you won't be able to get a good job, that you'll never be able to drive a decent car.
I don't need to elaborate further, for you already know his repertoire of doom he specializes in. Believing Satan's bad news makes for an unhappy life and you don't want that; and the Lord, your heavenly Father, doesn't want that for you.
Why can I be so bold as to say that the only news the Lord has for you is good news? (And this is not only for teens: it's never too late for teens already grown up to learn to believe the good news that the heavenly Father has for you.)
Here is that word of the Lord ready for you to choose to believe with all your heart: "I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope" (Jer. 29:11). You may ask, How can I know this is addressed to me? I have made wrong choices, I have done evil, I have broken the Lord's holy law; maybe I'm done for!
Read the context of what your heavenly Father has just told you: the Lord's people in Jeremiah's day had done gross evil (the book of Jeremiah is full of the story). One very bad thing: the entire nation had committed the equivalent of national adultery. And very many of the people had gone on and committed the personal deed, as well (vs. 23). Yet the Lord wanted them to repent and accept His forgiveness; Jeremiah was pleading for a national repentance; so with you, the only "thoughts" the Lord has for you are "thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."
Yes, you may know that you have sinned; you deserve only failure and pain and disappointment; but the worst sin you can commit is to abandon your heart to anger against Him (it's not His fault!) and reject His forgiveness.
Now let the "grace of God that brings salvation … to all people" teach you to say "No!" to that hellish temptation (Titus 2:11-13; cf. NIV).
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: April 12, 2008.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.
