Knowing

   How much do you want to serve God? Making HIM known has become a life-long passion of mine. Seeking Him the other day, I was praying that I could serve to the very end of my days. No matter what, that I would keep making HIM known.

   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