To Live is Christ, to die is gain....

Recently, in wanting more of God in my life, and wanting to hear His voice, I ended up seeing more of my need for God, and really how fragile and needy I really am. In one of my emails that I receive daily, I read what's below, late one night. Truly, the longer I live, the more I see that all we really need is the Lord. Yes, we do need others, but when it really comes down to it, it's Jesus that we need, who will hear us, save us, give us peace and joy.

It doesn't always come the minute we look for it. Sometimes you have to seek and call out,and wait, and sometimes, wait some more, but if you are serious about it, God will answer you. And if you seriously want the truth, it won't always be exactly the way you think that you would want your prayer answered, but it will be what's best for you. Hang in there! If you presevere, you will get your answers to your questions and problems. God is faithful! (To die, meaning, to die to the things that are not of God, that have no life producing qualities. Of course, to die literally, means, with Christ our Saviour, eternal life with God).

Christian Quotation of the DayMarch 28, 2006

Meditation: Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him,not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith--that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. -- Philippians 3:8-11 (ESV)

Quotation: In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its vast comprehensiveness and truth, and makes us hide ourselves from its dread sanctity, is brought down into the life of a brother, ... and we see it illustrated and ratified in human action, we see righteousness that makes us feel more bitterly our sin, that makes us look more disparagingly upon our own efforts, yet leaves in us a longing to be like Him, as if we ought to be as He is. ... E. E. Jenkins (1820-1905), Life and Christ [1896]

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, I cannot live in the presence of Your Holiness and righteousness. Grant the I might simply become like Christ, so that I can abide in Your presence.