We can hear His voice if we will listen. When we let Him in we dine with Him and He with us. We dine on His body and blood. He dines on the love, worship, and obedience of our personality.

He speaks so gently that we have to listen carefully. Sometimes He wants to get our attention and knocks violently until we understand something is taking place. Has that ever happened to you?

There is this about life. Most things are actually easy but we make them difficult and complicated. Often it is sin that makes easy, simple things difficult and complicated.

Listening to the Lord and obeying Him is really easy and simple. But Satan, the world, our flesh, our love of ourselves, our relatives and friends, and many other factors and forces may complicate and make difficult what should be a gracious walk of friend with friend.

It is difficult to hear the Lord and open to Him when we are a young Christian. As we get older, if we keep on pressing into Christ, the situation begins to clear up. Little by little we learn to hear His voice and to open to Him. This is a valuable area of our land of promise.

He is right there! He is standing at the door and knocking! We do not have to run about trying to save the world. What Christ wants us to do is to let Him in so He can eat with us and we with Him. Sounds like the Song of Solomon, doesn't it?

But what about this? What about that? It can't really be that simple, can it?

Why not try it and see?

To Govern All the Works of God's Hands

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. (Revelation 3:21—NIV)

This may be the most powerful promise in the Bible. Strange, isn't it, that it is made to the worst of the churches!

The throne of Christ and the throne of His Father may be referring to great royal thrones in the heavens. But I like to think of them as being the hearts of people.

How I read this promise is that God the Father sits on the throne of the heart of Christ. When Christ overcame the world He was permitted to sit with the Father on the throne of His own personality.

So it is with us. God and Christ are enthroned in our heart. When we overcome that which comes against us we will be allowed to sit with God and Christ on the throne of our own heart.

You may not see it this way. But I think if we are faithful in permitting God and Christ to occupy the throne room of our personality, the day will come, as soon as we have been proven faithful, when we will be permitted to sit with Them on the throne of our own personality.

For the true Christian there may be many years of denial, of thirst for the pleasant and joyful things of the creation as he places the Father and Christ on the throne of his personality. But the day will come when his desires are fulfilled.

To be continued.