Thoughts for another day
July 29, 2010
Today's verse: 1 Pet. 2:4. As you come to him, the living Stone--rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him… (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
Just who is Jesus Christ? Sometimes this question comes to me and each succeeding time it does, it comes with even greater intensity to know and discover Him. Not that I don’t know my Savior, but the intention to know Him is deeper than when I began in Him. And with each depth, the joy of knowing Him is immense. I realise that the more I know Him, the more I want to know Him. I’m taken back to the time that Philip tells Him, ‘Master, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.’ Jesus turns to Him and says, ‘Have I been with you so long a time and you still do not know Me Philip?’ As we live we must be conscious of this question of the Lord and work so that He will not ask it of us.
Knowing Jesus is great and knowing Him intimately is something out of this world - heavenly. Jesus said, ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing’. This goes to show that we aren’t interested in knowing Him. Our inner unsaid desire is to be oblivious of God and we rationalize it in the lie that we are busy, permitting us to say we don’t have the time to spend with Him, getting to know Him. It is ironical that we understand so little of our God, because we haven’t yet realised that eternity is a long time and if we aren’t abiding in God there, the only other thing we have is to abide in eternal darkness.
Jesus came to earth as the Living Stone; but He was rejected and destroyed, of course the destruction was just of the body, but in the heavenly realm, Jesus won the victory - a victory for all that is good. God had chosen Him as He was precious in His sight; and God raised Him high because God wanted men to know that He has finally through the blood of His only begotten Son washed off the stain of sin from our hearts which earlier always created the chasm by which we could not reach Him. Our acceptance of this Living Stone and more importantly, our efforts to know Him will pay us rich dividends and ensure us a smooth ride into eternity.
July 29, 2010
Today's verse: 1 Pet. 2:4. As you come to him, the living Stone--rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him… (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
Just who is Jesus Christ? Sometimes this question comes to me and each succeeding time it does, it comes with even greater intensity to know and discover Him. Not that I don’t know my Savior, but the intention to know Him is deeper than when I began in Him. And with each depth, the joy of knowing Him is immense. I realise that the more I know Him, the more I want to know Him. I’m taken back to the time that Philip tells Him, ‘Master, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.’ Jesus turns to Him and says, ‘Have I been with you so long a time and you still do not know Me Philip?’ As we live we must be conscious of this question of the Lord and work so that He will not ask it of us.
Knowing Jesus is great and knowing Him intimately is something out of this world - heavenly. Jesus said, ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing’. This goes to show that we aren’t interested in knowing Him. Our inner unsaid desire is to be oblivious of God and we rationalize it in the lie that we are busy, permitting us to say we don’t have the time to spend with Him, getting to know Him. It is ironical that we understand so little of our God, because we haven’t yet realised that eternity is a long time and if we aren’t abiding in God there, the only other thing we have is to abide in eternal darkness.
Jesus came to earth as the Living Stone; but He was rejected and destroyed, of course the destruction was just of the body, but in the heavenly realm, Jesus won the victory - a victory for all that is good. God had chosen Him as He was precious in His sight; and God raised Him high because God wanted men to know that He has finally through the blood of His only begotten Son washed off the stain of sin from our hearts which earlier always created the chasm by which we could not reach Him. Our acceptance of this Living Stone and more importantly, our efforts to know Him will pay us rich dividends and ensure us a smooth ride into eternity.
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