Day 24

There's nothing new under the sun. Our journey of connecting with God in daily life through the Soul Revolution is as old as the Scriptures themselves.

It has also been the experience and endeavor of many followers of Jesus through the centuries. Brother Lawrence was an unknown Lay brother among the Carmelites in Paris in the late 1600's. Following his conversion to Christ as a teenager he made it his goal to maintain an ongoing constant connection with God so as "to walk as in His presence."

Following are a few excerpts from letters that he sent to a friend as he described his habit of constant communion with the Lord. The language is a bit archaic but still meaningful.

"In order to form a habit of conversing with God continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must first apply to Him with some diligence; but after a little care we should find His love inwardly excites us to it without any difficulty."

"We need only to recognize God intimately present to us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing his will in things doubltful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done them."

Pastor Bill