To Be in Daily Communion With the Lord
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20—NIV)
To share with Christ continually is a major part of our land of promise. One of the problems we Christians have might be termed momentum. So many fears and forces keep us going so fast we cannot hear the quiet voice of the Lord. Sometimes we hear His voice but our momentum carries us past what is being advised.
I do not know how long it will take you to slow down enough to be aware of the Lord's Presence and voice in all the details of life. I am in my seventies and have been a Christian since I was nineteen. Yet even now I have to keep reminding myself to slow down and listen carefully to all the Lord is saying.
It is a case of opening the door of our personality. In these days when the Lord comes in it may be as the Lord strong and mighty in battle, ready to drive all the enemies from the land that is our personality.
We can hear His voice if we will listen. When we let Him in we dine with Him and He with us. We dine on His body and blood. He dines on the love, worship, and obedience of our personality.
He speaks so gently that we have to listen carefully. Sometimes He wants to get our attention and knocks violently until we understand something is taking place. Has that ever happened to you?
There is this about life. Most things are actually easy but we make them difficult and complicated. Often it is sin that makes easy, simple things difficult and complicated.
Listening to the Lord and obeying Him is really easy and simple. But Satan, the world, our flesh, our love of ourselves, our relatives and friends, and many other factors and forces may complicate and make difficult what should be a gracious walk of friend with friend.
It is difficult to hear the Lord and open to Him when we are a young Christian. As we get older, if we keep on pressing into Christ, the situation begins to clear up. Little by little we learn to hear His voice and to open to Him. This is a valuable area of our land of promise.
He is right there! He is standing at the door and knocking! We do not have to run about trying to save the world. What Christ wants us to do is to let Him in so He can eat with us and we with Him. Sounds like the Song of Solomon, doesn't it?
But what about this? What about that? It can't really be that simple, can it? Why not try it and see?