Calling On The Lord

by

Ernest O. Knoch

If we really believe that our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, lives in us, why do we so seldom act as though we did? Why don't we call on Him, not simply to help us, but rather to take over our lives? For He is able to do superexcessively above all that we are requesting or apprehending, according to the power that is operating in us, we are told in Ephesians 3:20.

And in the tenth chapter of Romans, verses 12 and 13, is the wonderful truth that He is rich. But how may we, too, enjoy those riches? Our verses tell us. It is by invoking (calling on) Him. And how may we be enjoying our salvation now, instead of merely looking forward to future bliss? By calling on His Name (verse 13). And Paul tells that we are to avow our salvation with our mouths (verse 10). So we should never be ashamed to do our calling out loud.

We are so accustomed to thinking of our Lord as being in heaven, sitting at the right hand of the Father. Yet, when He left His disciples, He said that the Father would be giving them another Consoler (John 14:16), the spirit of truth. In verse 6 He told them that He was the Truth. And in verse 20 He states that He will be in them. And all this is for believers (but not for those in the world) for the eon (see verse 17). It was not merely to console the disciples, but to supply us all with comfort and joy by means of His availability as our constant Companion, Who is able and willing to provide us with His riches and His consolation (Eph.1:18,19), if we will only ask for it by calling on Him daily, hourly, even momentarily. What a shame that so many of us seem to have missed this enjoyment which our blessed Lord has so graciously provided for us.

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