Going deeper with God
Psalm 42:1 As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.
James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
There comes a time in our lives when we recognize that a surface relationship with God is not sufficient. When a strong, abiding connection is the only thing that can satisfy, then we must go deeper—deeper into His Word and deeper into prayer.
I am thankful the Church at Rock Creek takes both Bible Study and prayer so seriously. In the Fall of 2023 Immerse, a Disciple Building course was launched, and I am in the second year of learning and building relationships with other Christ followers while always seeking a closer walk with God. I look forward to each week’s study and leave each session filled to overflowing with God’s love and the thirst to know Him more.
If you feel like you are stuck in neutral and are not growing your relationship with God and with other Christ followers, I urge you to join a Bible study group whose focus is Christ and Christ alone. You will be amazed at the results.
I leave you with the lyrics from a song we sang in my childhood church.
Deeper, deeper in the love of Jesus
Daily let me go;
Higher, higher in the school of wisdom,
More of grace to know.
Refrain:
Oh, deeper yet, I pray,
And higher ev’ry day,
And wiser, blessed Lord,
In Thy precious, holy word.
Deeper, deeper! blessed Holy Spirit,
Take me deeper still,
Till my life is wholly lost in Jesus,
And His perfect will. [Refrain]
Charles Price Jones, 1900
May we have the desire to, as the song says, go deeper every day with Jesus.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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