Daily Bread - July 3, 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 have ministered to you by my Spirit. As you laid in my presence, I ministered unto you. I poured fresh water upon you and bathed you in my love. I brought healing to your wounds and removed the instruments of violence from your wounded spirit. I have healed your broken heart and made it brand new. Be revived in your spirit and in your life. I have need of you as a whole man. Now stand, and offer praise unto me with all of your heart, and I will finish the work that I am doing in you. I have sent a renewal into your spirit, mind, body, and soul. Look not back at the things that have happened to you. All the things that you have experienced have been for your admonition and your learning. I have used living experiences as illustrations to create a platform for your growth in grace. The misunderstandings and the mysteries that have come into your life are not to baffle you. They are allowed as illustrations for the classes that I have enrolled you in. I am the Master Teacher. Living examples and real situations are being used to instruct you. They aid me in granting you a greater understanding of me. I desire to teach you that there is nothing to fear in gross misunderstandings and perplexing mysteries. Come near. I am teaching you about the design and architecture of misunderstandings and mysteries. Their branches and flowers are unusual and secretive. These branches and flowers spring forth as mistakes and errors. They are like a giant maze many times. Their solutions are not obvious, for their design is to manifest a puzzle that draws their subject into the chambers of confusion. You have looked at their flowers, but I have seen their roots and their flowers. Allow me to show you the roots of these things, and behold the simplicity of misunderstandings and mysteries. I saw the beginning of these trials. I know their origin, and I know their ending. Am I worried about these unusual manifestations before you?

Do you seek to understand the nature of your problems, or do you seek to know the God of answers?

These unusual things have no ending in this life. They will grow until the end of time. They are all the same to me. Trust me to take each of these designs and unfamiliar patterns and make beautiful and profound testimonies out of them. Though you do not understand the why of these things, rest in the fact that I am faithful. You continue to ask why. How many times must I repeat these lessons?

There is no fear in love. I am working grace out in your life. Grace is teaching you in a special school with misunderstandings and mysteries as illustrations. Rest in the promises of God. This school of higher learning will grant you the diploma of love, which is a symbol that you have learned to trust me in all things and at all times. I am faithful. Only believe.

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?