There have been many times through the years that I've been in an Intensive Care Unit with a family and a loved one whose life is in the balance. It is a sobering thing to be in the center of a moment like that realizing that a ventilator or some other vital support component makes the difference between life and death. I've watched, as doctors and nurses are very attentive to all the devices that comprise 'life support'...they, being keenly aware of how important this "life flow" is.
As I thought about this this morning, I realized that our connection with God is the same. It is important that we be attentive and certain that there is nothing that could interrupt the Life flow that sustains us.
Oswald Chambers says it this way:
The golden rule for your life and mine is the concentrated keeping of the life open towards God. Let everything else - work, clothes, food, everything on earth - go by the board, saving that one thing. The rush of other things always tends to obscure this concentration on God. We have to maintain ourselves in the place of beholding, keeping the life absolutely spiritual all through (...We all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image...2 Cor 3:18). Let other things come and go as they may, let other people criticize as they will, but never allow anything to obscure the life that is hid with Christ in God. Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him. It is the one thing that is apt to fluctuate but it ought not to. The severest discipline of a Christian's life is to learn how to keep beholding as in a glass the Glory of the Lord.
Jesus declared to Martha in Mary's hearing, that, busy and complex as things may be, Mary had chosen "the only necessary thing"...sitting at His feet connected to His life flow...and, in every believer's walk, it's the essential that makes the difference between life and death.
...I just wanted you to know....
Mitch
