Time for Jesus — Basilea Schlink

God lives and works today, but his life can only be found in people who have time for him. In today's meditation by Basilia Schlink, we will be hearing what happened when a school teacher made time for Jesus.

Jesus, Lord, to love you I shall live for thyself. I have seen your own soul.

First Love Directed Entirely Toward Jesus

There is a love for Jesus which the Bible calls first love. This love has eyes and ears for Jesus alone. This love draws us to him. It makes our hands quick to serve him. It uses the most loving words to tell how wonderful he is.

Yes, this love knows only one great joy, and that is Jesus himself.

A Teacher Gives Her Vacation Time to Jesus

I know of a school teacher who was looking forward to some weeks of rest and recuperation after an exhausting term. She had planned a vacation in the mountains and was longing for the bracing air and the warm sunshine.

She had already bought her ticket. Everything was arranged with her friends. But then she sensed, Jesus is waiting for me. He wants my time, all my time. I won't have time for all the activities and get-togethers I've planned.

Because she didn't want to let her Lord wait in vain, she canceled all her plans, used the time for quiet and prayer, and gave her vacation money to the Lord. In these weeks, however, she received more strength and she returned to her work with greater joy than from any previous vacation.

Loving Jesus Without Measuring the Cost

This example portrays something of this love for Jesus, a love that sees only him, lives for him alone. If we begin truly to love Jesus, could we think of carefully measuring out our love to him whose love toward us is beyond measure?

Because Jesus loved us, his enemies, so much he paid for it with his life. There can only be one response to such a love. One must love him in return with a lavish, extravagant love that gives all, never counting the cost.

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