Every Day as a “Come to Jesus Meeting”

Lord Jesus, I used to think the meaning of the phrase, “coming to Jesus,” was exhausted when we first trusted you to be our Savior. For sure, that was the most glorious and essential “come-to-Jesus-meeting” we’ll ever have.

But this Scripture makes it clear that the whole Christian life is about perpetually coming to you. We need you today as much as the first day we met you. In fact, the longer we live, the more we’ll discover just how much more we need you, and how inexhaustible your riches are for us.

As Peter affirmed is this awesome passage, you truly “rock” the world. You are the life-giving living Stone for your beloved Bride, and the precious cornerstone of the living-stone-people. You are the rock of refuge that’s higher than us (Ps. 61:2-3), and the rock from which God gave water in the wilderness in Moses’ day (1 Cor. 10:1-4). You are the honey-giving rock Asaph wrote about (Ps. 81:16), and Daniel’s stone, hand-cut by God from a mountain (Dan. 2:36-45).

Jesus, the more precious you become to us, the more we watch our shame, fears, and confusion melt away. The more we see you for who you really are, the more we see all other currencies as fool’s gold. The more we come to you, Jesus, the more we realize that it’s you who is always first coming to us.

We come to you right now, Jesus. We come bringing our thirst to the fountain of your fullness, our brokenness to the daily-bakery of your new mercies, our weaknesses to the promise of your sufficiency. We come expectant and grateful. So very Amen we pray, in your treasured and shame-freeing name.