Spring break gives me time to do things I've intended to do for weeks. Back in January, I read this quote of Martin Llloyd-Jones on a blog I followed for a while. Now I'm finally posting it.
I often get caught up in things I need to do - I need to read, I need to write papers, I need to practice, I need to attend this meeting, or have lunch with this friend, or e-mail that person, and with all that I need to sleep too. I can stand to be reminded of my supreme need:
Our supreme need, and our only need, is to know God, the living God, and the power of his might. We need nothing else. It is just that, the power of the living God, to know that the living God is among us and that nothing else matters. So we wait upon him. We look to him. We cry out to him, as Moses did when he was standing before the Red Sea, not knowing what to do, and while the people were grumbling and complaining, and afraid. God answered Moses and said, “Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they may go forward” (Exodus 14:15). And on they went.
I say, forget everything else. Forget everything else. We need to realize the presence of the living God amongst us. Let everything else be silent. This is no time for minor differences. We all need to know the touch of the power of the living God.
Martin Lloyd-Jones
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