God lives and works today, and His greatest
deed is that He sets us free from
the burden of guilt in our lives.
Guilt that makes us unhappy and discouraged.
Listen to the following program by Basilia Schlink.
In the eighth chapter of Acts, we read
about a person whose heart was filled with
one longing, to draw closer to the Lord.
He longed to know Him, to come into
a close relationship with Him.
He longed to find the heart of God.
This person, the treasurer of Ethiopia, put all
his effort into achieving this relationship.
He started out on the long journey from
Ethiopia to Jerusalem.
At that time, a very long journey.
Even today, a trip by car from Ethiopia
to Jerusalem is a major undertaking.
But this treasurer was willing to let the
trip cost him something, and a great deal
at that.
One really has to ask himself, what have
I let it cost me to get to
know God better, to draw nearer to His
heart?
Is there a longing in our hearts to
know more about Him?
We know that in other religions, people sometimes
walk a hundred or even a thousand miles
in an attempt to come nearer to God.
They do it for weeks, even months on
end.
And why?
They think that by doing so, God will
be gracious to them.
These people have an awareness of their sins,
and that's why they do such things, for
they say, so to speak, my sin is
so great, I must do that which will
cost something in my life, so that I
can receive God's grace.
We can only say how fortunate we are
that we may know about the grace of
God in our Lord Jesus.
However, when God wants to make our inner
nature beautiful, when He chastens us a little,
or when it begins to cost our ego
something, why do we complain so quickly, protesting
loudly and rebelling?
Isn't it worth it?
Grace can be ours.
And when God gives us this grace through
Jesus' sacrifice, then we can only respond as
the Ethiopian treasurer must have responded, by loving
Jesus as the Lamb of God who has
brought us grace.
O Jesus, Lamb of God most fair, my
bridegroom, Lord and friend most dear, the heart
of love I offer to treasure joy your
love will supply, the heavenly kingdom is brought
nigh, my thankful heart I give you, my
thankful heart I give you.
Who is like you, my dearest one, forever
will you be adored by me beyond all
other, to treasure joy your love will supply,
the heavenly kingdom is brought nigh, my thankful
heart I give you, my thankful heart I
give you.
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