Dear Reader,
I’ve felt really led lately to drive home the point to those under my care that God is a God who communicates.
Years ago, I read a book called A Call to What Is Vital. It tells of the author’s own experience back in 1886, during a solitary walk in the foothills of the Alps:
“I felt the walls grow thin between the visible and the invisible, and there came a sudden flash of eternity breaking in on me. I kneeled down then and there in the forest glade, in the sight of the mountains, and dedicated myself—in the hush and silence, but in the presence of an invading life—to the work of interpreting the deeper nature of the soul and direct mystical relation with God, which had already become my major interest.”
Out of such an experience, a person can say not only that they know about God, but that they know God. It involves not just knowledge, but also feeling and emotion.
When the little blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller learned to communicate through her patient teacher, Miss Sullivan, her parents felt it was time for her to receive religious instruction. She was taken to Phillips Brooks, who told her simply about God. And Helen Keller replied:
“I have always known that there was such a one, but I did not know His name.”
That’s one of my favorite quotes.
God is a living, revealing, communicating God. We can feel His presence and have fellowship with Him—which means gaining entrance into a more abundant life. No matter what’s happening in your life right now, that assurance covers us like a beautiful blanket.
Rest in the fact that God sees you—oh yes. But He also wants to talk with you. That’s grace.
James
Rev. James A. Williams
Senior Pastor
Grace Resurrection Methodist Church
I’ve felt really led lately to drive home the point to those under my care that God is a God who communicates.
Years ago, I read a book called A Call to What Is Vital. It tells of the author’s own experience back in 1886, during a solitary walk in the foothills of the Alps:
“I felt the walls grow thin between the visible and the invisible, and there came a sudden flash of eternity breaking in on me. I kneeled down then and there in the forest glade, in the sight of the mountains, and dedicated myself—in the hush and silence, but in the presence of an invading life—to the work of interpreting the deeper nature of the soul and direct mystical relation with God, which had already become my major interest.”
Out of such an experience, a person can say not only that they know about God, but that they know God. It involves not just knowledge, but also feeling and emotion.
When the little blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller learned to communicate through her patient teacher, Miss Sullivan, her parents felt it was time for her to receive religious instruction. She was taken to Phillips Brooks, who told her simply about God. And Helen Keller replied:
“I have always known that there was such a one, but I did not know His name.”
That’s one of my favorite quotes.
God is a living, revealing, communicating God. We can feel His presence and have fellowship with Him—which means gaining entrance into a more abundant life. No matter what’s happening in your life right now, that assurance covers us like a beautiful blanket.
Rest in the fact that God sees you—oh yes. But He also wants to talk with you. That’s grace.
James
Rev. James A. Williams
Senior Pastor
Grace Resurrection Methodist Church
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