...We wish to see Jesus...

(Joh 12:21)

(Isa 26:8) Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O LORD, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls.

As I look back on my many years, the sensation that something was missing comes back into focus. At the various times there was an awareness of an emptiness in me. Like a craving that just could not be satisfied no matter what I did. Try as I might, the hunger only became fulfilled when I met Christ. He filled my soul.

(Psa 145:18) The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.

It is so very easy to be blinded to the presence of the Lord through the lustful methods and ideations generated by Satan. Lust is a powerful drug, and through it's attraction, promises and physical sensations lust easily leads many to an eternity in hell. It feels good for a minute but costs you foreverness in horrible regret and pain.

(Mat 18:20) "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst."

Why do you suppose that Jesus sent His disciples in pairs to share the Gospel? Partly that one might be strength to the other, and, two heads are better than one. Iron sharpens iron, you know! Actually, those two heads actually add up to three, Christ being the third! We can do nothing ourselves, zero. It is the Holy Spirit, it is the Christ, it is Almighty God that makes us a vessel to be filled by His will, or a tool in His hand to accomplish His intent. He is the Creator. We are the created. We are to share the beauty and perfection of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to everyone we encounter;

(Mat 28:20) Teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

The “Them” in Matthew 28:20 are those who you normally come into contact with on a daily basis. If you have the Holy Spirit in you, others will see it. You will be different than others. Unique, peaceful, confident. You, just being yourself, become a living Bible that radiates an attraction to those who have something missing in their lives. Share with them the love that only Christ Jesus can provide.

(Heb 12:1-2) Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

I used to be so very empty. Although I knew I was missing something, I was arrogant enough to think that my hands, my ways would eventually satisfy that craving. I was wrong. When I began an earnest journey into the pages of the Bible, the scripture came alive and I began to learn about the personality, the will, and the ways of the Master Potter who made me. The more you know Him, the more you will want to know. I can't get enough!!

(1Co 13:12) For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

(Php 1:23) But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better.

I so strongly desire to be in His presence, to see Him as He truly is. When the time comes, when it is His will, this desire will be fulfilled beyond anything my mind can conceive.

(1Jn 3:2-3) Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

Call His name. Invite Him into your heart. Let Him welcome you into the family as a child of God!

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?