Christlikeness requires Time with Christ
Many of you may have heard of Brother Lawrence and maybe you've read his Book, Practicing the Presence of God, but the person who has helped me the most in this area is Frank Laubach.
He was a missionary to the Philippines in early 1900's. He knew suffering, but in the suffering he came to know Christ. He tried to spend every waking moment aware of the presence of Jesus. Let me share the following quote,
"We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time. A teachers’ college requires students to attend classes for twenty-five hours a week for three years. Could it prepare competent teachers or a law school prepare competent lawyers if they studied only ten minutes a week?
Neither can Christ, and He never pretended that He could. To His disciples He said: Come with me, walk with me, eat and sleep with me, twenty-four hours a day for three years. That was their college course. He chose them, the Bible says, that they might be with Him, 168 hours a week!"
Every single moment is to be holy...every single moment is worship...every single moment is lived under the eye of God, but is every single moment lived with an awareness of Him? For the rest of the week we will look at this, but for now...stop and spend some time in His presence and talk to Him and see if you can continue that conversation all day.
He was a missionary to the Philippines in early 1900's. He knew suffering, but in the suffering he came to know Christ. He tried to spend every waking moment aware of the presence of Jesus. Let me share the following quote,
"We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time. A teachers’ college requires students to attend classes for twenty-five hours a week for three years. Could it prepare competent teachers or a law school prepare competent lawyers if they studied only ten minutes a week?
Neither can Christ, and He never pretended that He could. To His disciples He said: Come with me, walk with me, eat and sleep with me, twenty-four hours a day for three years. That was their college course. He chose them, the Bible says, that they might be with Him, 168 hours a week!"
Every single moment is to be holy...every single moment is worship...every single moment is lived under the eye of God, but is every single moment lived with an awareness of Him? For the rest of the week we will look at this, but for now...stop and spend some time in His presence and talk to Him and see if you can continue that conversation all day.
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