A Daily Link With Jesus

Jesus should have been “running out of time” all the time. Crowds constantly clamored for His attention. In a brief period of three-and-a-half years He had to carry out a spiritual revolution that would change life on planet earth forever. He was constantly dodging Pharisee spies and plots.

And yet Christ communicated a peaceful, tranquil spirit to everyone around Him. How? He invested time each day communing with His Heavenly Father. He depended on His Father continually for the resources to meet life’s challenges.

“Just as the living Father sent me and I LIVE BECAUSE OF THE FATHER, so the one who FEEDS ON ME will live because of me.”
—John 6:57.

Our Saviour depended on the Father. If we are to live the serene, steady life that He did, we must daily “feed” on Jesus—let His Word and Spirit fill us and shape us. The best way to counter the forces burning us out as individuals and tearing us apart as families is to invest quality time with Christ. He tells us:

“REMAIN IN ME, and I will remain in you. . . . APART FROM ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING.”
—John 15:4, 5.

One of the greatest needs of our time is for people to tap the spiritual resources available through forming a day-by-day relationship with Jesus. Guides 14 and 15 showed us how we do that through daily prayer and Bible study.

One very important point that needs to be emphasized about our relationship with Christ is this: His finished work on the cross. True rest, real security, can only exist because of the great accomplishment Jesus referred to when he cried out as he was dying: “It is finished” (John 19:30). In other words, His work of redemption was completed.

“But now he [Christ] has appeared ONCE FOR ALL . . . TO DO AWAY WITH SIN by the sacrifice of himself.”
— Hebrews 9:26.