Are You Fully Aware, I was not?  Real Southern Woman
Channel: REAL SOUTHERN WOMAN, COLLARD VALLEY COOK
Date: 2021-07-31

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon :: Morning and Evening
https://www.blueletterbible.org/devotionals/me/view.cfm?Time=am

July 31st — Morning Reading
"I in them." — John 17:23
If such be the union which lives between our souls and the person of our Lord, how deep and broad is the channel of our spiritual union! 

This is no narrow pipe through which a thread-like stream may wind its way, it is a channel of amazing depth and range, along whose glorious length a heavy volume of living water may flow and flood. 

Behold He has set before us an open door, let us not be slow to enter. 

This city of closeness has many pearly gates, these gates have one pearl, and each gate opens to the extreme that we may enter, assured of welcome. 

If there were but one small loophole through which to talk with Jesus, it would be a high privilege to push a word of friendship through the narrow door; how much we are blessed in having so large an entrance! 

Had the Lord Jesus been far away from us, with many stormy seas between, we should have longed to send a messenger to Him to carry Him our loves, and bring us reports from His Father's house; but see His kindness, 

He has built His house next door to ours, indeed, more, He takes accommodation with us, and containers in poor humble hearts, so that He may have continuous communication with us. 
O how foolish must we be if we do not live-in routine closeness with Him. 

When the road is long, and dangerous, and difficult, there is no need to wonder if friends would seldom meet each other, but when they live together, shall Jonathan forget his David? 

A wife may when her husband is upon a journey, abide many days without talking with him, but she could never endure being separated from him if she knew he was in one of the rooms of her own house. 

Why, believer, don’t you sit at His feast of wine? 

Seek your Lord, for He is near; embrace Him, because He is your Brother. 

Hold Him quickly, because He is your Husband; and press Him to your heart, for He is of your own flesh. 

Edited by Tammy Nichols on 7/31/21 for easy reading.