Our Ever-Present Lord!
"The Lord was with Joseph,
and he was a successful man."
Genesis 39: 2
F. B. Meyer said, “There is an experience in which we do not
only believe that He is near, but we perceive His presence by
the
instinct of the heart. He becomes a living, bright reality;
sitting by our hearth"
"walking beside us through the crowded streets, sailing with
us across the stormy lake, standing beside the graves that
hold our dead, sharing our crosses and our burdens….
Then the believer leans hard on the ever-present Lord.”
From the time he was seventeen until he was thirty,
Joseph encountered one heartbreaking setback after
another, but we read:
The Lord was with Joseph…. The Lord was with him….
But the Lord was with Joseph
and showed him mercy….
The Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord
made it prosper (Genesis 39:2-3, 21, 23).
You may encounter setbacks, and sometimes you go
through heartache. But those are the times to perceive
Christ’s presence by an instinct of the heart.
Let His
nearness be a living, bright reality in your life today.
"Lean hard on the ever-present Lord, drawing on
His fullness, appropriating His unsearchable riches,
claiming from Him grace to turn every temptation
into the means of
increasing likeness to Himself."
F. B. Meyer
