Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
"Good morning, your majesty, King Solomon!" Suppose God were to address you that way? You'd say, "But I don't have his wisdom!" But we are coming to the time when you'll need it. We face very perplexing problems: shall we believe Genesis 1-3 that God created the earth in six literal days, or be crushed under the scientists who declare that evolution alone is the answer and ridicule us who believe in the First Great Miracle of the Bible? Shall women be ordained or is that wrong? Is salvation by faith alone or by faith-plus-works? Are the Daniel/Revelation time prophecies a day-for-a-year, or meaningless jargon? Is there a manifestation of God's "spirit of prophecy" today as clearly inspired as were the prophets of old? How can we judge between truth and subtly disguised error?
Two woman confronted King Solomon: each claimed a certain baby was hers. #1 loudly pressed her claim; #2 was more quiet. The king couldn't run any DNA tests. It seemed impossible to know who was telling the truth. Ah, he has a bright idea! He will employ the test of love. "Sorry, ladies, I can't judge which of you two is telling the truth. So, let's be fair. Bring me a knife, I'll cut the baby in two and give each of you half." #1 simply folded her arms and awaited the result; #2 shrieked loud enough to be heard down at the Temple. "No, your majesty! Give #1 the baby. I can't bear to see you kill it!" Love had shown the king who was the true mother.
In every theological puzzle that confronts you, where the evidence seems balanced between opposite views, don't throw up your hands in despair, and decide to sit on the fence. You can't! At the end of the road, you're going to have to decide frankly and openly between the "mark of the beast" and "the seal of God" (Rev. 13:16, 17; 7:1-4). Look to see where is agape, the true biblical love. Don't be fooled by the foolish, shallow sentimental "love" that is the counterfeit ofagape.
Keeping the commandments of God will be the final test in the great controversy between Christ and Satan; but let's remember that only "agape is the fulfilling of the law" (Rom. 13:10). Outward conformity to the letter of the Ten Commandments may mask a heart that is bitterly devoid ofagape. "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall" (1 Cor. 10:12).
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: November 1, 1999.
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