No Greater Joy

From the book God Calling (www.twolisteners.org )

March 17  –  “No Greater Joy”                            

Withdraw into the calm of communion with Me. Rest – rest, rest in that calm and Peace. Life knows no greater joy than you will find in converse and companionship with Me.

You are Mine. When the soul finds its home of rest in Me, then it is, that its real Life begins. Not in years, as man counts it, do we measure in My Kingdom.

We count only from his second birth, that new birth of which I spoke to Nicodemus when I said, “Ye must be born again.” We know no life but Eternal Life and when a man enters into that, then he lives.

And this is Life Eternal, to know God, My Father and Me, the Son sent by Him. So immature, so childish, so empty is all so-called living before that. I shower Love on you. Pass Love on.

Do not fear. To fear is as foolish as if a small child with a small coin, but a rich father, fretted about how rent and rates should be paid, and what he or she would do about it. Is this work Mine or not? You need to trust Me for everything.

“There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased 
from his own works, as God did from his.” – Hebrews 4:9,10

did you forgot about the poor or what?? ( feeling lonely)

A day earlier before Christmas, a priest went out to a small village in upper Egypt with one of the servants to give Christmas gifts to the needy in the village, and after they went to the houses they meant to go  in the village, there was still a small hut at the end of the village, the servant hesitated to go because all the effort they did and because the it was late that they can catch up with the prayers in the Christmas eve, but the priest encouraged him to go to that hut, so they walked through a long road, till they reached the hut, and they were asking themselves while they were walking ,who is going to open the door for them, because they know that the lady that lives in that hut can’t walk, so they reached the hut, they knocked  , the strange thing that they have found the lady opening ,and that her leg can carry her now, so they gave her the gift of the Christmas which was food supplies, she thanked them and then they were going to leave , but she insisted that they come in, and then they smelled a lovely scent and saw a clear light inside the hut that they didn’t know it’s source.

The lady told them , I live here with my son in that hut, and I can’t take care of myself, and my son spends most of the time out, and I suffer of the feeling of being alone because it’s rare that someone come and visit in our simple hut that’s away from the village, and there’s nothing I can do but to pray and ask God to carry away my feeling of loneliness and give me a bit of peace and rest, and today after my son went out, my feeling of being lonely and abandoned increased a lot ,because today everyone is getting ready to celebrate the Christmas and is wearing new clothes and meet each other at the church while I am staying alone in that hut and not feeling the joy of the Christmas, so I started to pray and  reproaching  Christ because he left me in this loneliness and the picture of baby Christ held by the virgin Mary  was hanged on the wall in front of me, so I looked at him and reproached him saying ,”did you forget about the poor or what?”

Then I started to think that nobody is going to visit her whether of her relatives or from the church so I kept reproaching Christ saying to him that the Christmas is here and no one came to visit, and while I am looking at him I find him coming out of the picture and came near to me and cleared my tears and told me merry Christmas, so I felt joy and dread  that I can’t express , and at the same time I felt that a power is moving through me ,so my weak legs got stronger and I stood and then Christ disappeared leaving in the hut his beautiful light and his beautiful scent ,and it is not to long till you knocked my door, so the priest and the servant had  consolation and thanked God that encouraged them to make their last visit and the most important visit , in this low hut to become the greatest house in the village, and as a long time ago , God blessed the place that never was expected that a human to be born in a  manger , now he blessed this place too,

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When people go away from you or when that many are around you but no one feels you , and you suffer from  psychological isolation, know that Christ longs to make you feel his presence , he is so close to you, and this is your chance to enjoy him, ask for him, and put all your  complaints and your needs in front of him , he loves you and longs to hear your prayers and whatever how long you have been feeling lonely , know that he was beside you from the first hour, and never left you for a single moment, ask  him with insistence that he reveals himself to you, so that he gives your heart consolation ,and you enjoy peace and joy

God bless