It is a sad day when the devil has a monopoly on our emotions and a corner on our enthusiasm. Sinners weep in theaters over the glycerin tears of Hollywood divorcees, but the Christians are ashamed to weep in church over a lost and dying world. I could take a dozen old-fashioned Christians who didn’t know but three or four things – but knew them-and go places for God while the average church member today is discussing ways and means or listening to the minutes of the last meeting.
Author: Vance Havner
Devotion of the Day
Himself
By him all things consist.
Colossians 1:17.
The supreme experience is to get past all lesser experiences to Christ Himself. Most of us stop short of the Giver because we are forever seeking this or that gift. Many a saint can testify to years of being occupied with this doctrine and that, this blessing and that, but coming one day into the larger place of resting in the Lord Himself, finding in Him their reward, their portion. Anything short of that is fractional, immature, incomplete. We are complete in Him, not in any experience or favorite doctrine. Here is the experience that excels all experiences because it includes them all. The whole is greater than any of the parts.
“Getting through to God” is not a strange emotional experience-although it may indeed move the emotions—but simply arriving at the blessed point where we rest in the Blesser and not in a lesser “blessing.” Then, whatever we may lose, we have Him, and in Him we have everything. All things are ours, and we are Christ’s and Christ is God’s.