God lives and works today.
But why do so few people experience his
reality?
The grace of God can only flow into
our lives under one condition.
However, it's an easy condition within everyone's reach,
as we'll hear in today's meditation by Basilia
Schlink called How to Draw Down the Grace
of God.
Some time ago I had a talk with
the leader of a large foreign ministry.
He was well known and respected, loved by
everyone.
But he confessed to me that his greatest
problem was his tremendous desire to be important.
Even in all of his work for the
Lord Jesus, deep down this need to be
important was the driving motive.
However, what upset me most about this person
was that although he recognized and confessed his
sin, he nevertheless did not repent.
Instead of turning over a new leaf, he
just continued working and living as he had
always done.
It was a great sorrow for me, because
I knew that the man was heading straight
towards the judgment of God.
He did not weep over his sins.
However, only when we are truly sorry for
our sins can the grace of God come
down into our lives.
Sweet Lord of life, I will now strive
No more to grieve you and burden Your
loving heart, sorrow laden Repentant tears my
Savior cheers Followed by praise and rejoicing Love
and my gratitude I sing I remember our
sister Claudia, whom the Lord called home at
the age of 35.
Her name, Claudia, meant weeping, and she was
truly one who wept.
Whenever she came for a talk with me,
her heart, and sometimes her eyes too, would
be filled with tears over what she had
done, how she had hurt God.
After she died, all the sisters testified, whenever
the Lord had judged our sisterhood because there
were things which were not pleasing to Him,
it was Sister Claudia who bowed herself the
most under her guilt.
And in the last years before she died,
she really radiated something of the nature of
our Lord Jesus.
How did she happen to be so filled
with the Lord's grace?
Sister Claudia was one who wept over her
sins.
Truly repentant, she stretched out her arms to
Jesus, her personal Savior and Redeemer, and He
rescued her from judgment.
Jesus delivered her and completely transformed her.
You shall be first, for this I thirst.
Jesus, my dearest treasure, my joy and bliss
beyond measure.
An Easter picture once moved me very deeply.
It portrayed Jesus' descent into hell.
The picture showed many outstretched arms of people
crying for deliverance, and Jesus, with the strength
of His mighty arm, was pulling them out
of the clutches of hell.
Whom does He deliver?
Whom does He set free?
Whoever weeps over his sins, crying out to
be delivered, that person draws down the grace
of God.
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Basilia Schlink of the Little Land of Canaan.
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