Fellowship With God

By Author: Grace
Total Articles: 4
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God desires our fellowship is, perhaps, one of the most amazing facts conveyed to us through the Scriptures.

This fact is so staggering in its conception that it is extremely difficult for us fully to grasp and consider its significance.

That God should allow His creatures to have fellow-ship with Himself is wonderful enough; but that He can desire it, that it gives Him satisfaction and joy and pleasure, is almost too much for understanding.

"The Father seeketh such to worship Him . . " Let this reflection fasten itself upon us, and it will inspire us with a passionate desire to seek His face morning by morning. The usual conception--that we read our Bibles and say our prayers for our own benefit and satisfaction—will fade into insignificance. Let this simple thought of His desire for our fellowship obsess us morning by morning and day by day.

It will carry us through times of deadness and dark-ness, give us patience to continue and persevere, when we remember that He is waiting to be gracious to us, waiting till He sees that we wait upon Him.

Then too, I feel that it is deeply important ...
... that the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ should be given its proper place. There can be no fellowship with God on any other basil. I know this sounds commonplace enough. You will remember that in the Old Testament God ordained that the sacrifice should be offered daily, morning by morning. Does not this speak to us? With us, too, morning by morning there should be a definite, conscious, prayerful, praiseful realization of the blessed sacrifice of God's Son. It is at the Mercy Seat that God has promised to meet us. One of the saints of the last century wrote, "Never have I felt a greater need of the blood of Christ than I do today, and never have I been enabled to make such use of it." Can we say this as we draw near to a holy God?

And here I may add a warning:

Let us beware lest, if we do not immediately derive any subjective satisfaction or conscious appreciation from this exercise, we conclude that it is of no avail. God is seeking for men and women who will worship. Let us then worship, whether we derive any conscious benefit from it or not. Christ is worthy to be praised.

As we set ourselves to worship and praise Him for His wondrous sacrifice, seeking to give rather than get, we shall find that the Holy Ghost will silently, but very really, convey to us the efficacy of His death, and make our fellowship with God through the Word and prayer a blessing and delight. Let us believe that Christ and His atoning death are worthy of everlasting praise and adoration, whether we actually derive any conscious benefit or not. Let us keep our eyes off ourselves and our own subjective experience, and keep them fixed by faith in worship and wonder on the Lord Jesus and Him crucified. God will see to it that we are blessed thereby, for "them that honor Me," He has said, "I will honor."

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