{"id":1262,"date":"2011-09-03T05:26:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2011-09-03T05:26:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T05:26:21","slug":"have-you-seen-jesus-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"Have you seen Jesus lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>Have\u00a0<em>you<\/em> seen Jesus lately?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they did not know who He was.\u201d\u00a0Luke 24:16 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/21\/Charles_Spurgeon_sermons.htm\">Charles Spurgeon<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The disciples ought to have recognized Jesus, they had heard His voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is amazing that they did not know Him. Yet is it not so with\u00a0<em>you <\/em>also?\u00a0<strong>Have\u00a0<em>you<\/em> seen Jesus lately? <\/strong>You have been to His table\u2014and you have not met Him there. You are in a dark trouble, and though He plainly says, \u201cIt is I\u2014do not be afraid,\u201d yet you do not recognize Him. Alas! our eyes are blinded! We know His voice; we have looked into His face; we have leaned our head upon His bosom\u2014and yet, though Christ is very near us, we are saying, \u201cO that I knew where I might find Him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We should know Jesus, for we have the Scriptures to reflect His image. Yet how frequently we open that precious book\u2014and have no glimpse of our Well-beloved! Dear child of God, are you in that state? Jesus walks through the glades of Scripture, and desires to commune with His people. Yet you are in the garden of Scripture\u2014but cannot see Him, though He is always there!<\/p>\n<p>Make it your prayer, \u201cLord, open my eyes\u2014that I may see my Savior present with me!\u201d It is a blessed thing to\u00a0<em>desire <\/em>to see Him. But oh! it is better far to\u00a0<em>gaze <\/em>upon Him! To those who<em>seek <\/em>Him\u2014He is kind; but to those who\u00a0<em>find <\/em>Him\u2014He is precious beyond expression!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have\u00a0you seen Jesus lately? \u201cBut they did not know who He was.\u201d\u00a0Luke 24:16 (Charles Spurgeon) The disciples ought to have recognized Jesus, they had heard His voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is amazing that they did not know Him. Yet is it not so with\u00a0you also?\u00a0Have\u00a0you seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}