Amen dear sister! Each day as we behold Jesus, He is able to speak to our minds what He would have us to do. As we receive from Him, we are to impart to others. As Brother Jim has shared, we need to be in communion with Jesus as He was with His Father. "Through continual communion He received life from God, that He might impart life to the world. His experience is to be ours."
God has entrusted to His church the most important message ever given to mankind, a message to take to a world soon to perish. It is the three angels message. It is a message of warning, but it begins with a message of hope, the gospel message.
The Lord has spoken to you, my dear sister. It is by beholding Jesus that we are transformed and live for Him. We want to reach the world with the truth for this day. But, He also has revealed to us that we are to minister to the physical needs of humanity that the hard heart might be softened, then the seed will take root and produce a bountiful harvest.
We will pray for your outreach to those in your part of the world.
Why do we make time to spend with Jesus each morning? Jesus tells us that we must feed upon Him who is the Manna which came down from heaven. But, in today's reading we see even more clearly a need we have that we must pay attention to.
In the estimation of the rabbis it was the sum of religion to be always in a bustle of activity. They depended upon some outward performance to show their superior piety. Thus they separated their souls from God, and built themselves up in self-sufficiency. The same dangers still exist. As activity increases and men become successful in doing any work for God, there is danger of trusting to human plans and methods. There is a tendency to pray less, and to have less faith. Like the disciples, we are in danger of losing sight of our dependence on God, and seeking to make a savior of our activity. We need to look constantly to Jesus, realizing that it is His power which does the work. While we are to labor earnestly for the salvation of the lost, we must also take time for meditation, for prayer, and for the study of the word of God. Only the work accomplished with much prayer, and sanctified by the merit of Christ, will in the end prove to have been efficient for good.
As the Lord revealed to His disciples how they ought to pray, so do we pray. "Give us this day our daily bread." This is not just a request for food for the body, but it is a prayer for spiritual food the will refresh and cleanse the heart.