Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” (John 8:58 ESV)
The Lord’s ability to crowd
vast ranges into small phrases is amazing. He compasses the whole range of human
need, and answers every heart cry in a simple sentence of two words: “I am.”
I cry for resurrection, for
Life, for something to happen, for a filling, a consciousness, a sensation, a
movement, an energy, a “something.” The Lord’s answer is, “I am the
resurrection and the Life at any moment, in My will, anywhere.” Oh that we
might live on that “any moment – anywhere” because of Him! He would woo us away
from subjects, experiences, and teachings to propagate. Such a course has done much
harm. The people of God are divided into groups, larger or smaller, around some
thing, some experience, some truth, and the all-embracing and all-uniting
reality is lost. Away, then, with things, experiences, and truths, to Him. “This
is life eternal, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ
whom You have sent.” "Do you not understand? Who do you say that I am?"
With a touch of Divine illumination in your heart you see the thing that you
have known so long. Only the Lord can do that. That is the direction of inquiry.
The Lord set our hearts on that.