* I read in Jeremiah 31: 32-33 where God talks about a new covenant. He says, "I will put My law within them and on their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people." They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the Lord, 'for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
For some reason as I read this I started thinking about my M. friends and how God longs to give them a new heart. How he longs to extend forgiveness to the M.
* Then I read a poem by Samuel Moor Shoemaker entitled "I Stand by the Door."
He ends:
I admire the people who go way in.
But I wish they would not forget how it was before they got in.
Then they would be able to help the people who have not yet even found the door,
or the people who want to run away again from God.
You can go in too deeply, and stay in too long, and forget the people outside the door.
As for me, I shall take my old accustomed place, near enough to God to hear him,
and know he is there, but not so far from men as not to hear them, and remember they are there, too.
Where? Outside the door - thousands of them, millions of them.
But - more important for me - one of them, two of them, ten of them,
whose hands I am intended to put on the latch.
So I shall stand by the door and wait for those who seek it.
"I had rather be a door-keeper . . . "
So I stand by the door.
* I started praying:
That I will be a door-keeper in the M world so that when Jesus is revealed I may simply be able to guide a hand to the door.
* I open outlook and the first email that is in my box is from a M connection I made a few months ago.
And all this before 5:00 A.M. on Tuesday morning.
Salaam,
Jamey
No comments:
Post a Comment