He Went on His Way Rejoicing

God lives and works today and his greatest deed is that he sets us free from the burden of guilt in our lives. Guilt that makes us unhappy and discouraged. Listen to the following program by Basilea Schlink.

In the eighth chapter of Acts we read about a person whose heart was filled with one longing, to draw closer to the Lord. He longed to know him, to come into a close relationship with him. He longed to find the heart of God.

This person, the treasurer of Ethiopia, put all his effort into achieving this relationship. He started out on the long journey from Ethiopia to Jerusalem, at that time a very long journey. Even today a trip by car from Ethiopia to Jerusalem is a major undertaking, but this treasurer was willing to let the trip cost him something, and a great deal at that.

One really has to ask himself, what have I let it cost me to get to know God better, to draw nearer to his heart? Is there a longing in our hearts to know more about him? We know that in other religions people sometimes walk a hundred or even a thousand miles in an attempt to come nearer to God. They do it for weeks, even months on end. And why? They think that by doing so God will be gracious to them.

These people have an awareness of their sins, and that's why they do such things, for they say, so to speak, my sin is so great, I must do that which will cost something in my life, so that I can receive God's grace. We can only say how fortunate we are that we may know about the grace of God in our Lord Jesus. However, when God wants to make our inner nature beautiful, when he chastens us a little, or when it begins to cost our ego something, why do we complain so quickly, protesting loudly and rebelling? Isn't it worth it? Grace can be ours, and when God gives us this grace through Jesus' sacrifice, then we can only respond as the Ethiopian treasurer must have responded, by loving Jesus as the Lamb of God who has brought us grace.

My thankful heart I give you, my thankful heart I give you. Who is like you, my dearest Lord? Forever may you be adored, by being beyond all other. To treasure, joy, your number supply, the heavenly kingdom is brought nigh.

My thankful heart I give you, my thankful heart I give you. You have been listening to a program written by Basilea Schlink of the Little Land of Canaan. To learn more about how God lives and works today, visit us at our website, www.canaan.org, that's K-A-N-A-A-N dot org.

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