My apologies for not getting a new blog up last week. The week simply got away and somehow that didn't get included in it. For those of you who are regular readers, thanks for your patience.
I've discovered a new devotional book, "God Calling" by A. J. Russell. I've not completed reading it yet, so I'm not sure I can recommend it, but what I've read so far has been exceptional. I pass on to you what I read yesterday....
As if Jesus is speaking:
To the listering ear I speak, to the waiting heart I come. Sometimes, I may not speak. I may ask you merely to wait in My Presence, to know that I am with you.
Think of the multitudes who thronged Me when I was on earth, all eager for something. Eager to be healed, or taught, or fed.
Think as I supplied their many wants, and granted their manifold requests, what it meant to Me to find amid the crowd some one or two, who followed Me just to be near me, just to dwell in My Presence. How some longing of the Eternal Heart was satisfied thereby.
Comfort Me, a while, by letting Me know that you would seek Me just to dwell in My Presence, to be near Me, not even for teaching, not for material gain, not even for a message - but for Me. The longing of the human heart to be loved for itself is a something caught from the Great Divine Heart....
I'm amazed how much of my relationship with Him is about getting something rather than bringing something to Him. I'm still learning more how to walk with Him so that "in my manner of life...I'll be worthy of the Lord and entirely pleasing to Him." [Colossians 1:10)
So amazed and...
Indebted,
Mitch
