“STAND!”

 I “STAND” amazed in the PRESENCE of JESUS the Nazarene!  

These are the first words of a hymn written In the early 1900s by Charles H. Gabriel (1856-1932).  Notice that Mr. Gabriel didn’t write about doing great and wondrous deeds to advance the KINGDOM OF GOD, but he wrote that he would “STAND” AMAZED (or AWESTRUCK!) that JESUS would CHOOSE him to be a child of HIS!

John 15:16 says “You DID NOT CHOOSE ME, BUT I CHOSE YOU and APPOINTED YOU that YOU SHOULD GO AND BEAR FRUIT and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ASK THE FATHER IN MY NAME, HE may give it to you.”  

Sometimes we have to “STAND” still before HE can get HIS MESSAGE into our thick skull!  Eighteen years ago today I was an almost three week coma before GOD permitted me to remain on earth to just “STAND”!  HE CHANGED me from being a loud, voracious person to a more HUMBLE man, one who would be USED to let people know that HE left me here to “STAND”!!!