“Jesus is Right Beside You–Say Hello!” by...
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“Jesus is Right Beside You–Say Hello!” by @Kaala
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The other day I looked up to the sky and said “Thanks God.” Then I thought, “Why are you looking up there?” Then I turned to the seat next to me and said, “Thanks.”
It may sound kind of silly or immature to do that but I believe Jesus is not some place way over there as much as he’s right here with us, next to us, within us–closer than our own breath.
Jesus is next to you right now. Say hello.
Sometimes, though, it’s hard to talk to someone we can’t physically see.
There was a story of a minister who had gone to visit a dying man at his home. When he got there he found the man lying in bed with an empty chair next to him.
“I guess you were expecting me,” the minister said.
“Who are you?” asked the man.
“Your daughter asked me to come by and pray with you and I saw the chair…”
“Ah, the chair. Sit down and let me explain.”
He told the minister that all his life he would go to church and hear how he should pray to God but just felt like it went right over his head. One day, a friend told him that Jesus with him always and that prayer was just a simple conversation. His friend recommended putting a chair next to the bed and in faith to see Jesus sitting there.
He said he tried it, loved it and had been doing it for a couple of hours a day. But he never told his daughter because he didn’t want her to think, you know, that he had kind of fallen off that rocker.
The minister was deeply moved by the story and encouraged the man to keep on praying.
Two nights later the daughter called the minster to tell him her father had passed away. She said she had left the house in the afternoon, after her father had called her over and given her a kiss on the cheek. When she got back from the store she found that he had passed. But she found something strange about his death.
She said, “Apparently, just before daddy died, he leaned over and rested his head on the chair beside the bed.”
This story always gets me, it does. But it also highlights the kind of relationship and closeness God wants to have with us.
One bible writer says,
“O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely.”
He is close to us.
He knows us. He really knows who we are, just how we are and still loves us and isn’t going to leave us.
Today, take some time to move closer to Him. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.
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