“The great lack of our religion is that we do not know God.”

Andrew Murray

Preface to Waiting on God, p. 1145, Essential Works

I know just enough to know that I do not know God well enough.

I am committed to using my last days in knowing Him better.

I know this requires time in His Presence, learning from Him and about Him.

There must be much that needs correction and redirection within me.

There is so much about God that I must seek to know. I know He are infinite in His wonders and that I know so very little. But I do believe that I can learn more and share more of His love with others. I believe

 

“All the difficulties...have their cause in this one thing: the defective knowledge and practice of waiting on God.” Murray, p. 1147.

I am still confident of this:

I will see the goodness of the Lord

in the land of the living.

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart

and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27.13-14

(Psalm 130)

“Fullness” with and from God, His love and grace, power, come from “waiting,” abiding time with God. In a time when were physically with us, as with Adam and Eve and the first disciples, we have the real contact with God.

In God's visible absence, we have His Spirit to accomplish the same thing, just as well. It requires the same response: Pay attention and do what we are told. We do this and learn this in the times we seek  God in His invisible presence.

So, then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord,

continue to live in Him,

rooted and built up in Him,

strengthened in the faith as you were taught

and overflowing with thanksgiving.

Col 2.6-7

It's not like this is a mystery.  The concept of the tent of meeting with Moses and abiding in Christ is repeated over and over from Genesis through Revelation. The endless lament of the prophets is the lack of sincere, earnest effort to know God through time with God.

Peter pleads, “Make every effort...be all the more eager.” His urgency is that we may “possess these qualities in increasing measure.” ( Peter 1)

Paul frequently urges us to be diligent.

Jesus Himself often urges earnestness with God, “...first...,” frequently using parables to drive the point home.

It is in these moments that we “have the joy of receiving every moment out of the fullness of God.” Murray, p. 1147

Today, I spend time with God in a room dedicated to this purpose--to pray, read, meditate, realize truth about God. I must be here and focused is such a way that I can hear what God, the Holy Spirit, wants to say to me.

Every word God speaks into my heart is life-changing, life-forming, life-giving. It is out of this God-given life that I can have living words to give to others.  a

Just as the disciples had to keep their attention focused on what Jesus was saying if they were to get the point and understand how what Jesus was saying applied to their individual lives, so I must pay attention to what God is wanting to say to me.

My goal is to understand how to understand and know God. This understanding begins with understanding that it can only happen in a place like this.

If there is no time here in this Room of Meeting, there will be no advancement in grace and knowledge of Who God Is and What God Does. In a place like my Room, I “continue” my life with the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.  Here I become more and more

rooted and built up in Him,

strengthened in the faith.

Col 2.7

Here I learn of His love for me,as He reveals Himrself to my heart and understanding. Here I am given strength, hope, insight, wisdom for my next moment and encounter. Here I receive what I know I need as well as what He knows I need.

The things which I discover with and about God change my life into an image of Who He is.

To realize that God, the Great God, the Creator of heaven and Earth and all there is in the vast Universe, God!  God meets me here.

Oh, then I must come early and often, staying late in humble gratitude, thankful such grace, goodness, mercy, love, patience, cleansing, strengthening...Oh, so much to be received in floods from the rivers and fountains of Life that flow from His heart into my heart.

“My soul silently awaits for God;

from Him comes my salvation.”

Psalm 62.1