yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life
How often do we stay outside the safety of our Lord and savior? How many times are we not willing to listen? How many times has He called to our heart and we refuse? I think if we search our heart we are often listening to the wrong voice. Our input is not from scripture but rather from what we think we know or have heard. Isn’t it time to come to Him with purpose to live out all the days we have left this side of eternity honoring and glorifying Him? What does this world have to offer but broken dreams, unfulfilling work, and short term satisfaction? Do you want to have purpose – reach out to Him and commit your heart, soul and mind to Him. Willing to be used by Him. Willing to hear. Willing to follow, Willing to obey. No one has ever said was too close to Jesus but many have said I wish I would have listened sooner for my life would have had much more meaning.
Matthew 23:37
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you desolate
Psalms 147:2
The Lord builds up Jerusalem;
he gathers the outcasts of Israel.
He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds
Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called and you refused to listen,
have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,
because you have ignored all my counsel
and would have none of my reproof,
I also will laugh at your calamity
John 5:38
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life
