"Have I been so long with you, & yet hast thou not known Me?"

Guten Tag, my lovelys!

So, as I was reading my morning devotional by the illustrious & extremely well-versed, Oswald Chambers (I ♥ that name...totally sounds made up, haha), I came across an explanation of his on what a truly intimate relationship with Christ is like, which seemed particularly appropriate since I was having such trouble explaining it in previous blog entries. Anywho, here's what Os had to say...

"When one gets intimate with Jesus we are never lonely, we never need sympathy, we can pour out all the time without being pathetic. The saint who is intimate with Jesus will never leave impressions of himself, but only the impression that Jesus is having unhindered way, because the last abyss of his nature has been satisfied by Jesus.
The only impression left by such a life is that of the strong calm sanity that Our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him."

my new year's resolution, among some others, is to grab hold of & sustain a more intimate relationship with our loving Creator. (:

amen & amen.

mjl.


postscript...the title verse of the day is brought to you by the letter, J! As in John 14:9! Woo hoo! (;