John the Baptist was the greatest and most used prophet. But, he that is least in the Kingdom is Greater than He. How?

Let us not miss the intimacy of Christ dimension of New Testament Faith.

The God of our Data Gap (information gluts) or the God of our heart ‘ligion.  Do you know him?  or Are you studying Him?  The Man after God’s own heart was sometimes ignorant of the details of data for lack of study, but he was always in pursuit of God in his personal experience.  This is what we are learning when we sit at the feet of suffering Saints of God and others who have learned to know God well.

Sometimes, I hear us justifying our woeful lack of expectation from God on our behalf because we are studious and we are too deep for the masses to embrace our doctrine.  Are we desperate for God’s presence in our everyday?  Are we waiting for God to fulfill our prayers to be amongst us in power and in numbers, also?

We plead for the showers of blessings that others have known.  We plead that in wrath you would remember mercy.  We plead that You would not leave us without your presence in our worship.  We have exalted the polished and the beautiful for our leaders and helpers and perhaps ignored the less polished Saints for positions in leadership and we must learn better.

We have a greater presence of God than John the Baptist had.  What did Jesus mean that he that is least in the Kingdom is greater than he?  He was used amazingly in the building of the Kingdom of God.  But his experience was without the fellowship of the Church the Bride of Christ and his experience was without the effective sending of the Holy Spirit as it is now.   We have a daily and continued expectation of God to impose himself on us by His Spirit.  What is more than a conqueror experience in our trials?  It is the reality that God’s light of faith is shining and drawing others to himself through our difficulties and that He deigns to draw the closer to those whose situations are hard.  He is carrying us!  He is not someone to whom we have to send others to ask of.  He is right with us in our sufferings.  Our grief may blind us to that experience, but that doesn’t make it any less true.  God is far closer to His suffering Saints than we can even know.

Thank You God for the New Testament experience of faith and love of you!