08-08-2007, 02:29 AM
Today's meditation is taken from:
A PLACE FOR THE LORD
by Chip Brogden
http://www.theschoolofchrist.org/articles/place.html
"Look! I am standing at the door, knocking! If anyone can hear Me, open the door! I will come in to you, and we will have fellowship with one another" (Revelation 3:20).
We have often quoted this verse in the context of salvation, but it should be noted that Jesus spoke these words, not to lost sinners, but to the Church of Laodicea. Even with His own people He does not force the door open, but He patiently knocks, and waits.
Before we can prepare a place for the Lord as a Body of believers, He must have ready and frequent access to us as individual disciples. In Laodicea the situation is so bad that the Lord makes His appeal to the individual heart to take Him in. We are in much the same condition today. The issue is not salvation, but fellowship and communion.
Order Infinite Supply in print:
http://www.TheSchoolOfChrist.Org/books/infinite.html
©2007 TheSchoolOfChrist.Org. Permission is granted for
non-commercial (free) distribution provided this notice appears.
A PLACE FOR THE LORD
by Chip Brogden
http://www.theschoolofchrist.org/articles/place.html
"Look! I am standing at the door, knocking! If anyone can hear Me, open the door! I will come in to you, and we will have fellowship with one another" (Revelation 3:20).
We have often quoted this verse in the context of salvation, but it should be noted that Jesus spoke these words, not to lost sinners, but to the Church of Laodicea. Even with His own people He does not force the door open, but He patiently knocks, and waits.
Before we can prepare a place for the Lord as a Body of believers, He must have ready and frequent access to us as individual disciples. In Laodicea the situation is so bad that the Lord makes His appeal to the individual heart to take Him in. We are in much the same condition today. The issue is not salvation, but fellowship and communion.
Order Infinite Supply in print:
http://www.TheSchoolOfChrist.Org/books/infinite.html
©2007 TheSchoolOfChrist.Org. Permission is granted for
non-commercial (free) distribution provided this notice appears.