DayBreaks for 05/22/13 – A Confused Perception

DayBreaks for 05/22/13 – A Confused Perception

NOTE: I am on a missions trip/internship to Africa and will be gone until 5/25.  Please pray for God’s work to go forth mightily, for protection for myself and those with whom I will be working, and for my wife in my absence!  Thank you…I cherish your prayers!  You will be receiving DayBreaks as usual (from the archive) until I’ve returned.

I think that there are two crucially important things that God wants us to know: first, He wants us to have the right perception about Himself; secondly, He want us to have a right perception about ourselves.  Consider the effect of wrong perceptions about God: some think of Him as a stingy, mean-spirited kill-joy who sits above the earth deriving joy from making humans suffer.  Others would overemphasize the fact that God is love – and that nothing else matters to Him except that we love others.  Still others would think that His apparent absence from our day to day life is testimony to the fact that He has lost interest in His creation – if He exists at all and isn’t just an concept that mankind dreamed up just to make us feel better.

We can have the wrong perceptions about God, but we can have the wrong perceptions of ourselves, too.  Some look at their lives and feel that they’re doing just great – they have confidence in their own righteousness and feel they’re OK because of a long litany of deeds and acts that they have done.  Others look at their lives and see their own sinfulness – and that’s all that they can see.  Sin after sin, week after week, year after year.  Now, to make it really complicated, Christians can have an honest self-assessment of their sinfulness and of God yet leave the topic of grace out of the picture.

I liked Brennan Manning’s analysis of this situation in The Ragamuffin Gospel: “And Grace calls out; you are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold.  You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken, or potbellied.  Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you.  But you are not just that.  You are accepted.  Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.”

Are we sinful?  Yes.  But God knows that – and He still accepts us.  He won’t accept my sin, but then again, He doesn’t have to because He’s removed it!  I do the grace of God a disservice and insult him when I let my own analysis and perception of myself conflict with the fact that I am His child by the grace of His adoption.  (Ephesians 1:4-6 – “4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will…”)

God didn’t have to adopt us.  He didn’t have to choose us.  He didn’t have to save us.  He didn’t have to accept us.  But He DID adopt us, He DID choose us, He did save us and He does accept us.  Why?  It was “in accordance with His pleasure and will…”  Rejoice in the knowledge that God has accepted YOU!

Copyright 2002 by Galen C. Dalrymple.  ><}}}”>

Copyright 2013 by Galen C. Dalrymple.

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DayBreaks for 05/21/13 – The Biblical Definition of Faith

DayBreaks for 05/21/13 – The Biblical Definition of Faith

NOTE: I am on a missions trip/internship to Africa and will be gone until 5/25.  Please pray for God’s work to go forth mightily, for protection for myself and those with whom I will be working, and for my wife in my absence!  Thank you…I cherish your prayers!  You will be receiving DayBreaks as usual (from the archive) until I’ve returned.

Faith.  So much depends upon it, but yet there is such confusion about what faith really is.  If you ask a theologian you’d get one answer, a philosopher another, a psychologist might laud its value from a psychological standpoint, but at the same time say that it isn’t rooted in reality and should be done away with.  Scripture has an interesting twist on it in Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”   This clearly shows that there is a difference between faith and hope and it even claims that faith can be certain.  I don’t know about you, but I often find it hard enough to be certain about things I can see – let alone be “certain” about things I can’t see.  Let me ask the question: How would you define faith?

Brennan Manning had an interesting observation: “If a random sample of one thousand American Christians were taken today, the majority would define faith as belief in the existence of God.  In earlier times it did not take faith to believe that God existed – almost everybody took that for granted.  Rather, faith had to do with one’s relationship with God – whether one trusted in God.  The difference between faith as ‘belief in something that may or may not exist’ and faith as ‘trusting in God’ is enormous.  The first is a matter of the head, the second a matter of the heart.  The first can leave us unchanged, the second intrinsically brings change.”

Do you see the point?  It is one thing to believe that God exists.  That is a good thing – but not the necessary thing.  The necessary thing is to trust Him with all that you have ever had, all you have, all you will be – for now and eternity.  Faith in God’s existence won’t save you.  Faith in the completed work of Christ Jesus – trusting your all to the concept that he loves you, he died to save you, and that he’ll come back for you again – that is saving faith!

Copyright 2002 by Galen C. Dalrymple.  ><}}}”>

Copyright 2013 by Galen C. Dalrymple.

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DayBreaks for 05/20/13 – Where It Shines Brightest

DayBreaks for 05/20/13 – Where It Shines the Brightest

NOTE: I am on a missions trip/internship to Africa and will be gone until 5/25.  Please pray for God’s work to go forth mightily, for protection for myself and those with whom I will be working, and for my wife in my absence!  Thank you…I cherish your prayers!  You will be receiving DayBreaks as usual (from the archive) until I’ve returned.

Romans 6:15 – “What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!”

On the surface, the very suggestion that we should sin so that God’s grace would be magnified is ludicrous.  I don’t know anyone who has ever seriously suggested such a thing.  I have to wonder if the writer to Romans was being facetious.  I find the suggestion shocking that a Christian could think such a thing.

Yet, once I get past the shock of the idea, I find that my actions are not as consistent with my indignation about the suggestion of sinning so that grace is magnified.  Every time that I knowingly sin and have an inkling of a notion that “Well, if I blow it, I can go back to God and ask Him to forgive me again” I betray the fact that part of me has bought into this offensive logic.

We all need to remember the terrible price that was paid so that we could be under grace instead of law, under the law of love instead of the law written on stone.  It is when we forget (or when we consciously ignore) the suffering of the Lamb of God that we give in to our sinful desires.  May God always keep the cross of Christ set before our eyes!

I like what Brennan Manning had to say in The Ragamuffin Gospel: “Here was the purest picture I’d ever seen of God’s relentless pursuit of His raggedy creation.  Not that I could sin more so grace might abound (Rom. 6:15), but grace abounded more because I could find it in the darkness as much as in the light.”

Perhaps that is as good of a description of grace as I’ve ever heard…it is something that isn’t found only when we are walking in the light, but it is appreciated much more when we find and experience it in the darkness of our sinfulness.

Copyright 2002 by Galen C. Dalrymple.  ><}}}”>

Copyright 2013 by Galen C. Dalrymple.

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DayBreaks for 05/17/13 – Will He Not Do It?

DayBreaks for 05/17/13 – Will He Not Do It?

NOTE: I am on a missions trip/internship to Africa and will be gone until 5/25.  Please pray for God’s work to go forth mightily, for protection for myself and those with whom I will be working, and for my wife in my absence!  Thank you…I cherish your prayers!  You will be receiving DayBreaks as usual (from the archive) until I’ve returned.

Amos 9:8, 11-15 – “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign LORD are on the sinful kingdom.  I will destroy it from the face of the earth – yet I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD…11 “In that day I will restore David’s fallen tent.  I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be, 12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear my name,” declares the LORD, who will do these things.  13 “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes.  New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills.  14 I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.  They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.  15 I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the LORD your God.”

If you haven’t spent any time with the book of Amos, I’d encourage you to do so.  It’s a phenomenal book, one filled with strident messages of condemnation and judgment.  At one point, in chapter 7, God shows Amos visions of terrible destruction by locusts and fire.  It wasn’t a pretty picture.  The pronunciations of judgment pile upon one another until the picture is so dark that you want to put the book down and not open it again.  But if you do that, you’d miss an incredibly important part of the book.

All along it is the house of Jacob that God has been talking about – judging, condemning, punishing.  Yet in chapter 9, another side of God becomes visible.  He promises not to totally destroy the house of Jacob, but He goes far beyond a statement of non-destruction…he promises that their crops will grow so fast that they are ready for reaping even as the seeds are sown!  And as if that weren’t enough, He concludes with a very bold statement: “…never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them…”

So what does all that have to do with us?  Glad you asked!  We (at least most of us) are not of Jewish descent, but I believe this passage applies to us as much as it ever did to the Jews.  In the NT, the writers use the same terms of believers in Christ that were used of the Jews: children of God, His people, the chosen ones.  And it is in that vein that I believe we should understand these verses at the end of chapter 9.  The day will come when God’s people will never again be uprooted.

J. A. Motyer put it thusly: “To promise eternal security is one thing, to guarantee it is another.  Can he, and they, and we be absolutely certain that the time will come when the king will reign over a whole-wide company, when sin’s presence, power and penalty will have been removed from the scene, when abundance, satisfaction and security will be the order of the day?…It was not man who in 7:1-6 declared that the edit of total destruction had been dis-annulled.  It was God.  And at the end it is God who commits Himself to raise up the king in his kingdom, to restore the fortunes of His people and plant them with eternal security in their inheritance…The day will come when He will reign and sin will be no more, for ‘God is not man, that he should like, or a son of man, that he should repent.  Has he said, and will he not do it?  Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?”  (Nu. 23:19)

You’ve got not only God’s promise about your future, but His guarantee that He will deliver it.  Don’t think for a moment that He won’t keep His promise to you!

Copyright 2002 by Galen C. Dalrymple.  ><}}}”>

Copyright 2013 by Galen C. Dalrymple.

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DayBreaks for 05/16/13 – The Sweepings With the Wheat

DayBreaks for 05/16/13 – The Sweepings With the Wheat

NOTE: I am on a missions trip/internship to Africa and will be gone until 5/25.  Please pray for God’s work to go forth mightily, for protection for myself and those with whom I will be working, and for my wife in my absence!  Thank you…I cherish your prayers!  You will be receiving DayBreaks as usual (from the archive) until I’ve returned.

Amos 8:6 – “…buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.”

This verse from Amos comes in the midst of a series of accusations by the Lord against the northern ten tribes.  God was enumerating the offenses of Israel for which they would be punished by going into enforced exile under the Assyrians.  The greed of the people had become so great that instead of being moved with compassion toward the plight of the needy, that they would make the needy slaves in order so the needy could have shoes instead of just giving them shoes!

But that’s not all.  The Lord goes on to accuse them of “selling even the sweepings with the wheat.”  What does this strange saying mean?  I think it means this: wheat was sold by volume or by weight.  Those who were selling the wheat would sweep it up from the threshing floor and it would include dirt, dust, perhaps even rocks and pebbles.  They didn’t bother to separate the trash from the wheat, and they sold it by weight/volume as if it were all wheat!

I think that there is a real application to our day and age.  As far as most of us are concerned, we don’t sell wheat for a living, so we can’t apply this literally to our lives.  But we can apply the principle.  Any of us who work for someone else are selling something: our time.  We “sell” our time daily in exchange for money.  What I’m wondering is how pure our “time” is.  Are we giving our employers a solid 60 minutes each and every hour of productivity?  If we aren’t, we are like the people in Israel long ago who sold some wheat, but also the trash and sweepings that made it less than a full measure of what was being paid for.

Today you are selling your time for a wage.  How honest are you in your dealing with your employer?  Give full value for what you are paid.  God will be glorified through your work when you present it honestly to your employer and to Him!

Copyright 2002 by Galen C. Dalrymple.  ><}}}”>

Copyright 2013 by Galen C. Dalrymple.

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DayBreaks for 05/15/13 – When Men Stop Believing

DayBreaks for 05/15/13 – When Men Stop Believing

NOTE: I am on a missions trip/internship to Africa and will be gone until 5/25.  Please pray for God’s work to go forth mightily, for protection for myself and those with whom I will be working, and for my wife in my absence!  Thank you…I cherish your prayers!  You will be receiving DayBreaks as usual (from the archive) until I’ve returned.

Romans 1:21-25: “21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.”

G. K. Chesterton was said to have made this comment (not an exact quote) when discussing faith: “It has been said that when people stop believing in God that they believe in nothing.  Alas, it is much worse than that.  When men and women stop believing in God, they will believe anything.”

We live in a world that will believe anything.  Some believe that aliens built the pyramids.  Others believe that we are gods unto ourselves.  Others believe in Mother Earth but don’t believe in Father God.  Some have believed that spaceships were following comets and that beings from “out there” were coming to take them with them.  And they believed that so strongly that they killed themselves so they would be ready to go.

Why is it that men and women don’t want to believe in God?  When God is out of the picture, what is there for them to hope for?  They need something, so they manufacturer gods out of “created things” and hope that those gods will be able to give them what they long for – meaning, love, life, hope for the future and deliverance from what we experience in this life.

Sadly, it may not be an all or nothing situation.  Our knowledge of God limits what we believe about Him.  It is for that reason, if for no other, that we can never stop trying to learn more about Him.  Our lack of knowledge of His nature can lead to false assumptions about what God wants from us.

Copyright 2002 by Galen C. Dalrymple.  ><}}}”>

Copyright 2013 by Galen C. Dalrymple.

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DayBreaks for 05/14/13 – What We Feed Ourselves

DayBreaks for 05/14/13 – What We Feed Ourselves

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From Bizarre News, Berlin, Germany: “On the popular reality shows, contestants battle it out and eat insects to pass on to the next even or simply because they have nothing else to eat.  In Germany, however, insects are becoming the newest trend in restaurant dining.  Bored with traditional menu options, Germans bombarded a local restaurant that recently added insect dishes to its menu.  Chef Lars Scheuble of the Berlin Soda restaurant now cooks such meals as cockroach pasta, grasshopper and locust couscous, and sautéed maggots with green leaves.  His inspiration was a vacation to Africa and Thailand, where natives regularly eat insects.  ‘They have virtually no fat and in Africa they’re eaten instead of meal or as a snack,’ he said.  Customers have thus far been supportive and say the worms in the salads are ‘crunchy’.  According to the chef, ‘Nobody has complained about stomach problems yet.’”

I have one thing to say: YUCK!  Sauteed maggots?  Cockroach pasta??  Whatever became of the belief that “You are what you eat?”  What would that say about those who eat such food???  It is hard to believe that people would eat such stuff voluntarily, especially when surrounded by all the food in this country.  Yet, perhaps it shouldn’t be too surprising that there is a spiritual parallel to this: we are in possession of great “fare” yet we often feed ourselves with trash!

Still, there are numerous places in scripture where the word of God is described as food to be devoured and enjoyed: “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”  (Psalm 119:103)  But the point I’m most interested in is our propensity to fill ourselves with trash, thinking it is sweet.

In spite of my distaste for insect cuisine, Matthew 15:11 tells us that it isn’t what we eat that defiles us.  It’s what comes out of our mouths: “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”  And Matthew, of course, is right, when talking about what we eat.  However, it is also true that what we feed our minds can defile us.  The things which we feed our hearts and minds can pollute us.  Consider this passage from the wise author or Proverbs: (Prov. 27:7) “He who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.”  Isn’t it true of our culture?  People are so hungry for some happiness and meaning in their lives, some escape from the agonies of daily life, that even bad things taste good to them – they seek some new thrill at the expense of God’s word and their self-esteem.  They degrade themselves in all manner of ways that would seem disgusting to most of humanity.  And to them, it tastes sweet.

It is easy to fall into the same problem and behavior cycle as the rest of our contemporary culture.  Let’s make sure that what we are feeding our minds is wholesome.  We need to remember that when temptation comes to us, that although it may seem to taste sweet, that which is bitter is still bitter and it doesn’t produce a pleasant result in the long run.  Don’t consume Satan’s lies.  They can’t satisfy you with what you really long for!

Copyright 2002 by Galen C. Dalrymple.  ><}}}”>

Copyright 2013 by Galen C. Dalrymple.

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Medical Ambassadors International is a 501.c.3 organization that has been serving the needy, sharing the gospel and helping them become self-sufficient for 32 years.  Check them out!  They are also members of ECFA (the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability).

Your support is greatly appreciated!!!!  Thank you!