Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
If you are one of the many millions who never opens the Bible, you don't know how to find your way around in it, you feel like you don't know God, you don't know where to begin to find Him--let me suggest something different for you. Read the last chapter first (Revelation 22)!
It's at least easy to find, and it's mostly monosyllabic. Its simple profundity will awaken long forgotten wonder from your childhood. And since you know it's true, it'll be much better reading than Harry Potter.
You will need only the most basic of common sense rules in order to begin a lifelong adventure: "He that cometh to God must [number one] believe that He is, and [number two] that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him" (Heb. 11:6). Literally that says, "a rewarder He becomes to those who watch out for Him." Or, let Peterson's The Message rendition say it, "Anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him." Maybe a big leap of faith on your part, but take it.
With that simple first step (the best you have ever taken!), you are ready to enjoy the hors d'oeuvre that is that last chapter of God's word. It'll be a welcome relief from all that troubles you. Just reading it will refresh your tired spirit, and rejuvenate you for the new day. Let your heart revel in what it says; don't put up a moment of resistance. Believe it. You're already eating the fruit from the "tree of life," and you are already drinking "the water of life." You are already realizing a little of "the healing of the nations."
When it says, "These sayings are faithful and true," it's not asking you to do anything that's difficult; the "angel" is only encouraging you, personally, to believe what's true.
That first step is to believe what is obviously Good News of a better world in the making; then the next step becomes easy--the "doing of His commandments, that [you] may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city" (Rev. 22:14). Your heart will echo the cry of the author, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [will] be with you . ... Amen." You've seen that grace already, that "a rewarder [God] has become" to anyone who looks for Him.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: June 27, 2003.
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