“Seek every day to have closer communion with Him who is your Friend, and to know more of His grace and power. True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ. ‘To me’, said Paul, ‘to live is Christ.’ ” (Phil 1:21).
~ J.C. Ryle
Practical Religion, “The Best Friend”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1998], 350.
I see this a so important, but sometimes the affairs of life push out the thoughts of God. May Christ be seen in me every day.
This reminds me of 2 Pet. 3:18:
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
I’ve found it’s easier for me to grow in knowledge than it is to grow in grace. Because growing in knowledge is something I can do, but growing in grace is something I must allow HIM to do in me.