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Scripture

All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. John 6:37

Observation

To make the claim that I can know Jesus is as audacious as to say, “I am entitled to a meeting with the President in the Oval Office.” And yet it is as simple as phoning my own son.

“Come to Jesus,” the pastor says. Hands go up. People walk forward. Prayers are prayed. Lives are changed. It can seem as if it is we who are going to Christ. But in fact, it is always the other way around. Jesus comes to us. We don’t deserve him. We are blind to him. The door is locked….

…unless the Father opens the door for us. In our rush to have a personal relationship with Christ, I think many of us have forgotten that we have nothing to do with starting that relationship. Our salvation is all God’s idea. The fact that we are moved to turn to Christ, is because the Father wants us. He puts the desire into our hearts for Christ because he desires us.

Salvation starts and ends with the Father. This should change the way that I pray. There should be a humility in my knowing of Jesus. Instead of assuming that I know him well enough, I should start each and every day with humble prayers like this:

Father draw me to Jesus.
Father I listen to you and learn from you.
Father, grant that I may come to Jesus.
Father I believe Jesus is the Christ.

These are the kinds of prayers Jesus had in mind for us to pray. (See John 6:29, 37, 44, 45, 65.)

Application
I believe in Jesus as the Messiah, chosen by God and long awaited by the people, the focus of all the human race and all human history.

I need to come to Jesus Christ again. Every day, I need to come to Jesus. I cannot take Jesus for granted. I don’t know him well enough. I don’t have the ability to know him more. That’s all Papa’s doing. He’s waiting to see if I will make my life purpose to believe on the one he has sent. Then he will open heaven for me to know just a little more of him.

Prayer
Father, I come to you knowing that the relationship you have with your Son is the the most intimate, personal and private thing in all the universe. And yet, I ask to be included in that. I have nothing to give you for it. But I have everything to receive from it. Grant today that I may come to Jesus. Amen.