THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: A Walk and Talk With the Lord Have you ever noticed or counted the numberless occasions in which the Gospels picture Christ walking and talking with someone? The witness to His life is silent for eighteen years and then what happens? Jesus is at the wedding in Cana, and from there He is constantly in the presence of people, most of the time walking with them or talking to them. Even after His resurrection this pattern continues. He walks with and talks to two men on the way to Emmaus. He appears to His disciples. He walks along the Sea of Tiberias and helps His disciples catch fish... Later He walks with them to the top of the Mount of Olives and suddenly ascends out of sight. He is not yet finished. A few days later, He appears to Saul who is bent upon the destruction of the Christian movement. But Jesus talks to the man, and the greatest thing that ever happened in and for His church since His ascension takes place. A few minutes of walking and talking with Christ radically changes his life. Now, Paul really begins to live. Follow his life from that point to the end. He becomes Gods man with a mission, a man on the go. He came to know Christ. He had walked and talked with Him personally. What was Jesus trying to say for thirty-three years while on this earth? It is ever so simple. Christianity is not so much a matter of trying to figure something out, not so much a matter of systematizing into various conceptual details a set core of theological expletives. Ah, Christianity is an offer to man to come within the circle of His Lord, to live as it were within His sphere, or to simply walk and talk with Him directly and as personally as anybody ever walked and talked with anybody else. ___________________ From Ministry Magazine
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:01:03 +0000
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