He Is Always There

Act 17:27 to seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and find Him, though indeed He is not far from each one of us.
Act 17:28 For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring

Below is an excerpt from a devotional from A. B. Simpson. As I was reading this short paragraph I understood how true it is. Most of us, including myself at times, put our trust in so many things such as A. B. Simpson writes about, but not truly in Jesus. In the verses above from the book of Acts it is written the Lord is not far from each of us for indeed we are His offspring.

[From an A. B. Simpson devotional]

[We must come into personal contact with the risen Saviour, and have His very life quicken our mortal flesh before we can know the fullness and reality of His healing. This is the most frequent cause of failure. People are often trusting to something that has been done to them, to something that they have done, or something that they have believed intellectually; but their spirit has not felt its way to the heart of Christ, and they have not drawn His love into their being by the hunger and thirst of love and faith, and so they are not quickened. The greatest need of our souls and bodies is to know Jesus personally, to touch Him constantly, to abide in Him continually.

May we this day lay aside all things that could hinder our near approach to Him, and walk hand in hand, heart to heart, with Jesus.]

He Is Always There

I reached my hand out to Him,
I felt Him grasp my heart,
His love grew even stronger,
than when my walk with Him did start.

I cried out "thank You Lord Jesus",
for He always hears my call.
He is always there for me,
if I stumble or even when I fall.

He loved me before I knew Him,
He is there day by day.
I can not live without Him,
for there is no other way.

And what is truly amazing
is if I feel like this today,
I can't begin to imagine how it will be,
when Jesus and I will be together some sweet day!

E. P. Shagott
4/7/10

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