February 28, 2007

[Rev. Doc]

Letting God Show Through

"But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
John 3:21

Stan Buck tells the story about a little girl who, on their way home from church, turned to her mother and said, "Mommy, the preacher's sermon this morning confused me."

The mother said, "Oh! Why is that?

The girl replied, "Well, he said that God is bigger than we are. Is that true?"

"Yes, that's true," the mother replied.

"He also said that God lives within us. Is that true too?"

Again the mother replied, "Yes."

"Well," said the girl. "if God is bigger than us and he lives in us, wouldn't he show through?"

Prayer: Ask God to help you live in such a way that He will be seen in all you do.

"Only when a man tries to live the divine life can the divine Christ manifest Himself to him. Therefore, the true way for you to find Christ is not to go groping in a thousand books. It is not for you to try evidences about a thousand things that people have believed of Him, but it is for you to undertake so great a life, so devoted a life, so pure a life, so serviceable a life, that you cannot do it except by Christ, and then see whether Christ helps you. See then whether there comes to you the certainty that you are a child of God, and the manifestation of the child of God becomes the most credible, the most certain thing to you in all of history."
~Phillips Brooks