Quote from Forum Archives on February 15, 2003, 5:41 pm

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,

Since I did not send you daily messages each day this past week,
here's a message that fits with the theme that we'd been loosely
following. This time, we're using the term "Abiding". It has to
do with seeking, spending time, looking for, etc.

Here's a message from another Word for Today that covers these
things.

Your Brother in Christ,
Brian

From: "ChristianConnect" <admin@christianconnect.org.uk>
To: "Word for Today" <wft@christianconnect.org.uk>
Subject: [WFT] Sun 16 Feb 03 - Abiding (part 1)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 20:56:29 -0000 (GMT Standard Time)

WORD FOR TODAY from Bob Gass
16 Feb 2003

Abiding - part 1

" AS THE DEER PANTS FOR THE WATER BROOKS, SO MY SOUL PANTS FOR THEE, O
GOD. " PSALM 42 : 1 (NAS)

Abiding is all about the most important friendship in your life. In
abiding, you seek, long for, thirst for, wait for, see, know, love, hear,
and respond to...a person! Abiding means more of Him in your activities,
thoughts, and desires. Too often in our rush to perform for God, we fail
simply to enjoy His company. Yet we were created to be dissatisfied and
incomplete with anything less.

In Secrets of the Vine, Bruce Wilkinson writes, 'I made three simple
commitments to God: (1) To get up earlier and read my Bible. (2) To write
a page in my spiritual journal. (3) To seek Him until I found Him.

'I still remember the first line of my spiritual journal: "Dear God, I
don't know what to say to you." Each day I read what I'd written. On every
page I saw why my busy Christian life left such a bland taste - I'd become
an expert at serving God, but remained a novice at being His friend. But I
stayed with it. By the middle of the second month, things started to
shift. His presence entered my room. My rambling journal entries gradually
began to change as I listened. His passion for me, His purposes for my
life, began to rise from the pages of my Bible.

'That was more than 15 years ago. The pleasures of abiding - and the
extraordinary benefits - have redefined God's work through me. I see fruit
everywhere I turn. Yet none of it is a result of my working harder.'

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