You have to come often

While running in the park Saturday, I met two ladies who I knew were not from around here.  They verified my assumption by stopping me to ask for directions… in English.  The park is very big and newcomers upon entering at one gate find it difficult to find their way out by the same gate.  This was their dilemma.  They had tried three different gates and none of them were the needed exit.  I was the first English speaker they had seen.  While trying assist they asked, “How do you keep from getting lost?”  My response, “You have to come often.”  Whether I actually helped find their way I do not know, I did not see them again.

After we parted, I started thinking about my spiritual life.  “How do you keep from getting lost?”  Most of the time, we attempt this by weekly meetings.  Coming together to learn, to worship, to edify.  This is good and necessary, however it is not enough.  Many come to those gatherings exhausted, weary, lost.  “You have to come often” before the Father.

Sunday I started reading a book by Andrew Murray entitled The Deeper Christian Life.  The first chapter is “Daily Fellowship with God.”  Very timely indeed…

10 Points

1.  Fellowship with God is your chief need to Divine Life.  Just as the manna came fresh each day, you must take time to meet with God each day.
2.  Your first act in devotion should be setting still before God till you know he is near.
3.  Take your place of deepest lowliness and seek to be filled with the Spirit of humility.
4.  Then accept and value your place in Christ Jesus. You have access into the very heart and love of the Father.
5.  Christ is a living person and loves you with a personal love.  He looks every day for the personal response of your love.
6.  You have not only Christ’s life in you as power, and His presence as a person, but you have His likeness being wrought within you.  He is being formed in you, so that His likeness can be seen in you.
7.  This likeness consists chiefly in two things – the likeness of His death and resurrection.  Therefore every morning, “present yourself unto God as those that are alive from the dead.”
8.  All this can only be in the power of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in you.  Seek in God’s presence to have the anointing of the Spirit of Christ so truly that your whole life may every moment be spiritual.
9.  As you meditate on this salvation and seek fellowship with God, and wait on Him to reveal Christ in you, you will feel how needful the giving up of all is to receive Him.  Seek to know what it means to live as wholly for God as Christ did.
10.  “By faith” must be the keynote.  Just yield yourself in the faith of a perfect trust that God’s purpose will be worked out in you.

Begin each day in fellowship with God, and God will be all in all to you.