Appointment With Jesus

I would like to talk to you today about

appointments. We are concerned with

time and places. Everything of importance

happens to us at our scheduled place, and

because the place is so important, we madly

run from one appointment to the next,

usually behind schedule, fighting traffic

and darkness.

Jesus was not a famous evangelist. He had

no appointment book or schedule of 

coming services. His time was simply

spent walking. He stopped to speak to a

guilty person, “Your sins are forgiven.”

Or sit by a well and talk with a woman

who had failed in life. Or open a blind

man’s eyes.

We would be impatient with his ways.

We feel that He should be present on

Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, or the

Wednesday evening prayer meeting at

7:00 pm. But that is our schedule. Do we

dare to tell him that there is a better time

for doing his work? Or, later, we will

spend more time with him and get things

straightened out in our life.

But Jesus is walking by now. He may not

be near when you need him. Stop trying

to schedule him. You have no promise of

an appointment with him other than right

now. Do you have time for Him?

Lord, walk near me today. It is now that

I need your presence and strength.

Amen.