Christ Is God's Answer To Our Prayers
By Patrick Roberts
As we mature into Christ, we will find out more and more what a
pleasing, filling, comforting, encouraging, humbling and
empowering thing it is to know Him. And when we grow into the
living, fiery admiration for Christ that God intended, then we
will no longer view getting certain answers to prayers as our
motivation for praying. But rather, to simply enjoy His
wonderful Presence will be our main, overarching desire. All
God's creation and the Spirit of God Himself are already
pointing to the heavenly riches of simply knowing Christ.
Christ Himself is already the world's all-consuming Answer
regardless of how many or how few people have the sense to
recognize Him as such. In this way, for those of us who are His,
Christ will simplify our minds and hearts into a corporate
singularity of purpose in Him.
The Spirit of God is currently at work in His own people to make
Jesus Christ their All in every life-scenario. We who follow
Christ will know Him with an unforeseen quality of knowing. We
will learn the not-so-mysterious secret of fellowship with the
Almighty.
As we continue seeking Christ, we will discover more and more
that He embodies everything we want or ever have wanted. Those
who are wise enough to search out the depths of the riches of
God in Christ will find out how all good things, and even the
reconciliation of every bad thing, takes root in Him.
We might be distracted for a while by the impossibility of some
situation. We may feel overwhelmed for a moment by the excess of
people whom we are supposed to feed with this disheartening lack
of bread and fish. But all such scenarios exist for this main
purpose of driving stubborn men toward Christ. In every dire
situation, Christ Himself is our ever-present Remedy. This is
literally, always true.
A roof over our heads, medical insurance, full stomachs and
retirement plans can be good things, but Christ is the Summation
and the Source of all good things. Every good thing is a
blessing from God and Christ is the Best Part of all these good
things. But there is no way to realize this except by ongoing
fellowship with Him.
Keep asking God for everything you want and see if He doesn't
give you something better, such as an otherworldly freedom from
all insecure clinging. And the fact that Christ will meet you
wherever you currently are should encourage you to keep seeking
Him. But then again, don't be surprised when He does not leave
you where you are.
Some of us might be seeking Christ while religious turmoil boils
and churns all around, threatening to discourage us completely.
How, indeed, can anyone get a dependable picture of Christ when
such strife exists in the world, especially within the official,
religious community? The answer to this is in the asking. The
main purpose of severe deprivation and hardship is to remind us
to eat and drink our fill of our Heavenly Source before we look
to any worldly source.
If God is God, then He has authority to teach us regardless of
even our willful distractedness and confusion. If all that our
overtaxed minds can wrap around right now is basic living, such
as passing grades for students, or being able to pay the bills
for working people... then great! Let's use these things as well
as every other opportunity available to us to maintain prayerful
openness with Him.
The more prayerful exposure we have to the Divine Presence,
whether we are aware of it or not, the more we will be changed.
The Spirit of God is our Agent of success, the sole Catalyst in
our spiritual growth, even if He has to continue His work in us
despite us.
Christ is more real than any flesh-and-blood person. He was
present before in flesh and blood, but now His Presence is even
greater. He purposely made Himself available and approachable by
His Spirit for the sake of expanding the horizons of earth-bound
men.
Therefore, ask Christ to find any way possible to invade your
daily life, even to the point that you would be unable to stop
the overwhelming momentum of His Spirit. Because He alone is the
Author and Perfector of all faith, He will teach you everything,
including how to live, according to His specific purpose for
you.
To gain Christ is to lose all the little things our flesh holds
dear, a frightening prospect for most of us westerners. But it
would be far worse to fall into the hands of the living God. If
Christ teaches us, we will learn a productive fear of God, so
that we fear Him more than any petty loss.
Patrick is an average Christ-seeker. His goal is to turn people
to Jesus Christ.
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