He told me to tell you that
The house is quiet today. I’m a germaphobe and have not been sick in a million years (the result of hand washing). I mean I have not had a cold or a sniffle but Friday night the Grim Reaper came for a weekend visit.
Jennifer decided to be a team player and let her guard down so as she slept off the plague and I was taking it easy. I was able to spend some time praying and reflecting on the nouns in my life (people, places and things). My prayers turned to more deeper things than what they had been the last few days which were mainly, “God, save me and don’t let me die on this bathroom fl oor.”
God is good, He did and I didn’t.
One of the things I reflected on was the time I recently spent around someone I love a lot. I used to do church with this guy but he has drifted in a different direction which I’m struggling to understand but I trust in God’s sovereignty and know the earth has not and will not fall off of its axis.
Last week was the first time my friend and I have talked about his new direction. I appreciated his honesty regardless of how much it hurt. Some people are so close to the Kingdom it’s as if you could breathe on them and they would fall in but it doesn’t work like that.
It hurts people’s feelings when we say what I’m about to say but it’s truth (they say the truth may set you free, but it doesn’t always make you happy): There are only two kinds of people in this world, those who are Christians and those who are not Christians. People that know Jesus and people that don’t.
I have another friend (I know, hard to believe I have two friends) and I will ask him, “Do you know so and so?” Often, he will reply, “I know so and so but I don’t know know them.”
What I’m saying is you have to know-know Jesus, otherwise you don’t know Him at all.
There are some red letters (I’m a red letter guy, the words of Jesus are so awesome) in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Having a personal relationship with Jesus is the only way to know know God the Father. Being good and doing good doesn’t do it.
He told me to tell you that.
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