In an instant
the Holy Spirit spoke in His beautiful way. He brought my mind to the phrase
which churches and ministries have used as their motto: “Knowing Christ and
making Him known.”
It dawned
deep in the consciousness of my spirit – making Him known effectively ties
directly to how much I really KNOW HIM! Proclaiming Him is one thing.
Experiencing Him and sharing Him with others is quite another.
In the rush
and hurry of this culture, it is easy to “run out the door” to serve, to give,
to proclaim. But wait! Not too quickly! We cannot give away what we do not
possess ourselves.
The joy of
knowing Him is worth the time. Time in His Word, time in soul communion is
worth every moment spent.
In the words of an old hymn:
“Take time to be holy, Speak oft with thy Lord;
Abide in Him always, and feed on His Word.
Make friends of God’s children’ Help; those
who are weak,
forgetting in nothing His blessing to seek.
Take time to be holy, the world rushes on;
Spend much time in scret with Jesus alone.
By looking to Jesus, like Him thou shalt be;
Thy friends in thy conduct His likeness shall
see.” Longtstaff/Stebbins
Janene Dubbeld/FGG
Take it with You
“I want to know Christ and the power of his
resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him
in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.”
Phillippians 3:19