Sorry it has been so long since I last posted. Let me catch up just a bit here, and share a couple of thoughts from the last few weeks...

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John 2:46 says: "And Nathaniel said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Phillip saith unto him, Come and see."

Two chapters later, we find the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. The Bible says that many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony and then that many believed because of His own word. (see Jn. 4:39-41)

They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard Him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world." (Jn. 4:42)

I am thankful that Christ can be personally experienced, and that we can invite others to "come and see" Him for themselves. Those who know Him personally can say with conviction that He is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

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Acts 4:13, 14 says: "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it."

Isn't this an amazing thing?! These people saw and heard Peter and John and they knew that "they had been with Jesus." More than this, they could say nothing against what they did because the evidence was right before their eyes.

Oh that others, seeing me, would know that I, too, have been spending time with Jesus, and that God's power would be so evident in my life that they could say nothing against it.

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Finally, let me share these verses from Hebrews 11. "And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath prepared for them a city." (Hebrews 11:15, 16)

The Greek word used here for "desire" gives the idea of reaching for or longing for something. Let us reach out for and strive toward that heavenly country, never turning back to the world.