What More Can I Do?

So walk ye in him.”

- Colossians 2:6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

At the end of October the Lord blessed me with this poem. I was thinking back on 2009 that is quickly drawing to a close. The God's Love Outreach Ministry that He entrusted me with, if all goes well will once again be more fruitful than the year before, six years in a row! Praise God!

Next year this ministry will present it's "1000" program. To God be the glory! The Lord has blessed me with writing blogs, over "40+" since September. He has also brought me to Twitter where He is reaching out to people that I will probably never meet in this life. Writing short sentences He has now sent out "1400+" through my obedience to Him. Thank You, Jesus!

Then my heart cried out to Him;

What More Can I Do?

How can I reach them Lord?
Please tell me what more can I do.
It appears the harder I try,
the farther they get away from you.

I try to show them by your example,
from the Bible I quote Your Word.
It’s like telling them of something,
that most have never heard.

What can I do Lord,
to help them understand?
Everything we are destroying on earth
was created by Your own loving hands!

Please understand Lord,
I’m not giving up on You.
You are the most important person in my life,
I just want everyone to feel that way too!

E. P. Shagott
10/31/09

Now as you read Charles Spurgeon's devotional from this morning I pray you can understand as I do how important the walking part of Christianity is. Oh, I guess we can all talk a good thing but what does your actions show?

[If we have received Christ himself in our inmost hearts, our new life will manifest its intimate acquaintance with him by a walk of faith in him. Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our closet; we must carry out into practical effect that which we believe. If a man walks in Christ, then he so acts as Christ would act; for Christ being in him, his hope, his love, his joy, his life, he is the reflex of the image of Jesus; and men say of that man, “He is like his Master; he lives like Jesus Christ.” Walking signifies progress. “So walk ye in him”; proceed from grace to grace, run forward until you reach the uttermost degree of knowledge that a man can attain concerning our Beloved. Walking implies continuance. There must be a perpetual abiding in Christ. How many Christians think that in the morning and evening they ought to come into the company of Jesus, and may then give their hearts to the world all the day: but this is poor living; we should always be with him, treading in his steps and doing his will. Walking also implies habit. When we speak of a man’s walk and conversation, we mean his habits, the constant tenor of his life. Now, if we sometimes enjoy Christ, and then forget him; sometimes call him ours, and anon lose our hold, that is not a habit; we do not walk in him. We must keep to him, cling to him, never let him go, but live and have our being in him. “As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him”; persevere in the same way in which ye have begun, and, as at the first Christ Jesus was the trust of your faith, the source of your life, the principle of your action, and the joy of your spirit, so let him be the same till life’s end; the same when you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, and enter into the joy and the rest which remain for the people of God. O Holy Spirit, enable us to obey this heavenly precept.]

The answer to my poem is found in Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God! I will be praised among the nations, I will be praised in the earth. See God is and always will be in control. As Charles Spurgeon so wonderfully stated, "so let him be the same till life’s end"!

From God's heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott