Daily Bread - June 21, 2004

But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

I am a devoted parent. I brought you forth unto this lively hope by the word of God. By the incorruptible seed of the word of God, I brought you forth. I did not bring you forth to die. I brought you forth to live. Life more abundantly has been given to you. I have not abandoned you because you have grown in me. I took care of you when you were born again as a babe in Christ. The beauty of your being when you were young in me is just as important to me now as it was then. I care for you. I know the entire history of man. I know your beginning and your ending. I know the first of man's beginning, and I know his ending. I do not need a history lesson to find out anything. I know everything. I do not need to study the fossils to learn anything about your history. I am God, and I created man. I formed man out of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Trust in the account of your creation given in my word, for it is true. Excavations may tell you some things about man, but no excavations can bring to life that which I created and observed from birth to death. Place not your hope in man's concepts of man, but place your hope in the word of God and me. My word is forever settled in heaven. It will never pass away. My truth endures unto all generations. All generations have had an opportunity to know me, for my word has reached them all. People do by nature the things contained in the law. They show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts the means while accusing or else excusing one another. I have showed man of my existence. That which may be known of me is manifest in them. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made even my eternal power and Godhead. Man is without excuse. Go and sit at the feet of nature, and learn of me. In nature, among the animals is revealed the great need of reconciliation. They care for one another. Within them, is the evidence of the need of compassion.

The heavens declare my glory, and the firmament shows my handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge. There is no speech nor language where the voices of day and night are not heard. Their line is gone out through the earth and their words to the end of the world. Behold the glory declared by the heavens. Conservationists battle to protect wild life in nature and are the keepers of the wild. How much more am I going to fight to protect you from the predators of the hour?

If conservationists, who did not create wild life, care for the animals, how much more will I have compassion on those I created?

Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who created everything. I bring out their host by number. I call them all by name by the greatness of my might, for I am strong in power and not one fails. Nature is an excellent teacher. Go there, and learn of my ways and me.

Amos 3: 7 - 8

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?