The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe
"Further, Higher, Deeper"
Regarding the knowledge of God, two categories of people exist. Namely, those who need to know Him through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And those who need to know Him better through the same trust and dependence.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31).
"But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (II Peter 3:18).
For the believer, our need for growth primarily involves the magnitude of our Lord's supply of grace. "The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus" (I Timothy 1:14). His trustworthiness ever exceeds our trust. Thus, in this moment, we must realize that whatever the measure of our faith may be, God's measureless faithfulness beckons us to come further, dive deeper, and fly higher into its goodness and greatness. "Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds" declared the Psalmist (Psalm 36:5). We must reach unto that faithfulness in the humbled, but glad recognition that our trust will never fully grasp His trustworthiness.
We can and must know our Lord better in this day. "The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17). The quest begins with our recognition of need, and even more, with our awareness that our Heavenly Father works to reveal that He can be trusted "with all thy heart" (Proverbs 3:5). As that category of human beings who need to know Him better, we ask for brighter illumination whereby we face life in the light of His faithful face. We must better see the blessings of life as "every good gift and every perfect gift… from above" (James 1:17). We must grow in realizing our Lord as the "very present help in trouble" He promises to be (Psalm 46:1). We must more realize His promised presence in all times… "I am with you always" (Matthew 28:20). To whatever degree our confidence rests in these glorious realities of grace, it must settle further into the assurance that God can be trusted without reserve and with full abandon. "In all thy ways acknowledge Him" (Proverbs 3:6).
Whenever we ponder those who do not know the Lord, we do well to acknowledge, "Nor do I know Him as well as I should and must." Such an attitude leads us in truth and reality, and also in a frame of heart whereby we may well have greater influence on those who need to meet the One we have met, but who we have only begun to truly know. His infinite goodness and greatness beckon our humility and wonder… "Come further, dive deeper, fly higher." We shall not be disappointed as we respond with the Psalmist who knew His Lord, but realized that the journey into His faithfulness had ever just begun….
"When Thou saidst, Seek ye My face; my heart said unto Thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek."
(Psalm 27:8)
Weekly Memory Verse
When Thou saidst, Seek ye My face; my heart said unto Thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.
(Psalm 27:8)
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