In this sermon, Basilia Schlink emphasizes the longing of Jesus for believers to spend time with Him. She compares our lack of devotion to Jesus with the attention we give to visitors in our homes. Schlink highlights the indifference and forgetfulness of believers towards God, and how this indifference causes suffering to Jesus. She emphasizes that Jesus is alive today and pleads for our love, attention, and companionship. Schlink encourages listeners to open their hearts to Jesus and experience a rich and fulfilling life in Him.

God lives and works today. He is infinite in wisdom and power, and He created the whole universe. But, our Lord, in His omnipotence and splendor, also has a longing. Today's meditation by Baselius Schlenk will tell us what this longing is. If we love the Lord, our greatest joy will be to spend our time with Him. What a sorrow it must be for Jesus that He finds so few who devote time to Him. No matter how busy we are, when visitors drop in, we usually find time to entertain them until they leave. But when Jesus knocks at our door asking for our love, do we devote our time to Him? Often the most we can set aside for Him is one half hour during the whole day. Many of us complain that we can't find time for quiet prayer because our days are so filled. Usually, we're not even aware that the real reason we find no time is simply because we have so little love for Jesus. Who is loved less and forgotten more than our Lord Jesus? It would be quite out of the question for us to forget a person whom we really love for an entire day, for us not to seek to fulfill all of His desires. A loving wife doesn't forget her husband, nor does she fail to devote her time to Him and listen attentively to what He has to say. Yet, we forget and ignore our God, our Creator, our Redeemer, whom we should love above all things. And most of the time, we're not even ashamed or shocked over our indifference. In fact, we're not even aware that we've forgotten Him. Though we call Him Lord and Redeemer, He really doesn't exist for us anymore. How often we're insensitive to the suffering that our indifference causes Jesus. We live so detached from Him that if we're interested in Jesus at all, it's only the Jesus of yesterday. We don't know the Jesus of today. But Jesus is alive today. Therefore, He pleads for our time, our love, our attention, and our companionship. The living Jesus has a right to expect and ask these things of us. A dead person no longer demands anything from us. A dead person will no longer disturb our daily routine. And a dead person can't love us. But Jesus isn't dead, and when we treat Him as if He were dead, we grieve Him to His very heart. On the other hand, if we are united with our living Lord, if we respond to His love, we bring comfort and joy to Him. Jesus is standing at the door of your heart today. Won't you hear Him and open your heart? He will answer and make your life full and rich, yes, richer than you've ever dreamed. Jesus, Lord, to love you only, I shall live for that alone. To your heart, some comfort bringing, all your suffering making. May my heart now burn within me for your grief and agony, leading men to heed your suffering and your comforters to be. This program by Basilea Schlenk has come to you from the little land of Canaan. If you would like a free leaflet by the same author, please write to God Lives and Works Today, 9849 North 40th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85028-4099. That's God Lives and Works Today, 9849 North 40th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85028-4099. God bless you.