Fellowship

I've had a few folks ask why I've been "snoozing" at the keyboard over the past couple of months, and I could certainly try to use holidays and moving as easy and valid excuses. But, as it happened again this morning in my quiet time, I've simply found that God's word right now has most often been a reinforcement of the truths He brought home to my heart when I first started this blog.

" . . . there is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

Rather than let those revelations slip away with time, He continues to bring them back to me as if to say, "You heard me right the first time. This stuff really is the key. Don't let go of it!"

So, this latest post is really just a wonderful excerpt from Roy Hession's tiny but powerful The Calvary Road. Hession lays out better than my blog what is central to true Christian fellowship, and because that has been a topic very close to my heart in recent months, I wanted to share:

We must be willing not only to know, but to be known by him [our fellow man] for what we really are. That means we are not going to hide our inner selves from those with whom we ought to be in fellowship; we are not going to window-dress and put on appearances; nor are we going to whitewash and excuse ourselves. We are going to be honest about ourselves with them. We are willing to give up our spiritual privacy, pocket our pride, and risk our reputations for the sake of being open and transparent with our brethren in Christ. It means, too, that we are not going to cherish any wrong feeling in our hearts about one another, but we are first going to claim deliverance from it from God and put it right with the one concerned. As we walk this way, we shall find that we shall have fellowship with one another at an altogether new level, and we shall not love one another less, but infinitely more.