A brown book if you need it.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in
his wonderful face.
Things of earth will grow strangely dim in
the light of his glory and grace.
Let's just sing that together.
Let me
say this, if more Christians sat at his
feet, less Christians would fall on their face.
We should sit every day at his feet
in the quiet time.
It's something we should do every day.
Let me give you an example.
I came off a week of spiritual highs.
Every day I felt like I was on
top of Mount Sinai in the presence of
God.
I felt like I was in that cliff
to the rock with God walking by me
and allowing me to see his backside.
You know those experiences, those spiritual highs, but
what comes after the spiritual high, right?
You can't stay on top of the mountain
forever, right?
Well, at the end of the week, I
was very fatigued.
16, 17 hour days, very fatigued.
I normally get up at 4.45 in
the morning to have my quiet time.
And that Friday morning, I was rushed.
I rushed my quiet time.
I rushed to my office at work and
I was in the flesh all day.
I fell, I fell in my walk.
I fell in my walk, I'll say that.
Well, as I was driving home, I was
praying.
And I said, Lord, why did that happen?
Why did I fail so miserably today after
being in your presence so strongly throughout the
week?
How did that happen, Lord?
And it was as if he spoke to
me.
You know how he speaks to you in
a quiet place in your heart and no
one else speaks to you in a quiet
place here?
He spoke to me and he said so
clearly, he said, you cannot face today, let
alone this hour on yesterday's experience of me.
You must seek and meet me every day.
Then a text came to me in the
Old Testament so vividly, I thought about the
Israelites and the manna and how God ordered
them not to store up the manna because
what happened when they stored up the manna?
Got worms in it, didn't it?
And that voice came to me again.
And that voice told me, unless you seek
me afresh every day, your Christian walk will
have worms in it, worms in it.
And that's the problem with a lot of
preaching today, it's got worms in it.