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In a couple of weeks
I will be fifty-two! Oddly, I find that I have more endurance
and concentration than in past years, and I am learning to get
by with considerably less sleep. I do, however, find it difficult
to put my luggage in the overhead compartment on airplanes, and
everyone under forty looks young to me. I met the Lord twenty-four years ago, and each day He becomes more thrilling to me. The Word of God is a huge, rich frontier of revelation and He makes clearer each day that He can be found and enjoyed only by taking a direction opposite from the world. Age has no wisdom in itself. Those who turn away from God and dessert Biblical principles become more foolish as they grow older. But the old servants I have met have a security that forecasts heaven. Their eyes are on the things that count, and they cannot be compromised. Why is that? Because they have spent a lifetime on a quest for a Person. And in order to see and enjoy Him, there must be the leaving off of many things, both seen and unseen. We don't have a cheap Lord. He gave Himself for us, and His Blood is the most valuable element in all the universe. To be known, He must be followed, worshiped and sought . I did nothing to become worthy of salvation, and I am not worthy enough to maintain it. That is what the Blood is all about. It doesn't just make up for my unworthiness - it is so much more. And that is what grace is all about. There is seduction on every hand - all around us and at all times. All that is in the world would pull my time and attention away from what is eternal. But I know that He is able! "He is able to keep that which I committed to Him against that day." |
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