I know what it’s like to feel dry. To feel Jesus is distant. To know in my head I couldn’t be closer; that my life is now hid in Christ. But not to sense that in my heart. To feel my eyesight is clouded and my heart is stale.
And the Keswick Convention is not the answer to my problem. But it can help. Because our good God gives us many ways to bring our hearts closer to the sunshine of the gospel; many ways that will melt our hearts as we look to Jesus. And what I love about the Convention is that it’s like an oasis. It’s an opportunity to be refreshed. And then sent back out again.
Lifting my eyes to Jesus
Because in everything Keswick does, at heart it’s always about hearing God’s word. And I need that! I need to have my eyes lifted again to see Jesus. To have my horizons re-enlarged and my heart rekindled. To sing truth about God, to sing my response to Him, and to sing with a few thousand brothers and sisters. And over the course of the week, to be able to do all this multiple times. But also, because everything at the Convention is free, to feel free not to be at everything when I need to take time out.
