In the quiet, where no one else is, where distractions and the waiting list are absent I am drawn further into Jesus life. I want his life. I want his life to be my life. To die to mine with Christ so I can fully experience the life of the Trinity.
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. (ESV Bible, Colossians 3:1-4)
Frank Laubach’s words walked with me years. This was where I was going, I was determined to become the kind of person, no matter the cost, that like a bird flits across the sky, not worried about tomorrow.
As for me, I never lived, I was a rotting tree, until I reached the place where I wholly, with utter honesty, resolved and then re-resolved that I would find God’s will and I would do that will though every fibre in me said no, and I would win the battle in my thoughts. It was as though some deep artisan well had been struck in my soul or souls and strength came forth.
Martin Luther answered the how-to in his words recalled by later and they walked along with Laubach’s, before I finally put them together.
I have so much business to do to-day that I shall not be able to get through it with less than three hours of prayer.
And there in the quiet, God has access to the deepest part of me, the longing to become the person he wants me to be in the quiet and in the work. I find it to be true that he will keep me in perfect peace as my mind is turned to him.
The ESV Bible, Crossway 2001, www.biblegateway.com
Frank Laubach, Letters By a Modern Mystic, New Readers Press: Syracuse NY, 1979. Page 14.
The Guardian Vol XXII, The Sunday School Drawer, The Reformed Church Publication Board: Philadelphia, 1872. Page 161.
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