“Jesus Christ is saying
here, “Don’t rejoice in your successful service for Me, but rejoice because of
your right relationship with Me.” The
trap you may fall into in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service—
rejoicing in the fact that God has used you. Yet you will never be able to
measure fully what God will do through you if you have a right-standing
relationship with Jesus Christ. If you keep your relationship right with Him,
then regardless of your circumstances or whoever you encounter each day, He
will continue to pour “rivers of living water” through you (John 7:38).
And it is actually by His mercy that He does not let you know it. Once you have the right relationship with
God through salvation and sanctification, remember that whatever your
circumstances may be, you have been placed in them by God. And God uses the
reaction of your life to your circumstances to fulfill His purpose, as long as
you continue to “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1 John 1:7).
Our tendency today is to
put the emphasis on service. Beware of the people who
make their request for help on the basis of someone’s usefulness. If you make
usefulness the test, then Jesus Christ was the greatest failure who ever lived.
For the saint, direction and guidance
come from God Himself, not some measure of that saint’s usefulness. It
is the work that God does through us that counts, not what we do for Him.” CHAMBERS
I have been blessed to see God at work around me in
some very amazing ways. He has used me
in some of those instances which is even more amazing to me. A friend of mine says “God can hit straight with
a crooked stick.” I am not perfect, but the Son is .. and it is in Him and
through Him that I am able to participate in what God is doing in the world
around me.
The danger is that somehow I might begin to think
that I have done something .. that is was my own wit or perseverance that has caused
these things to be. People see me … and
give credit to me for what God has done.
In Haiti, I ask the pastors that I am working with to not promote me
when they talk to people about the schools, or the medical help or whatever it
might be, but rather .. give God the
glory. All credit goes to Him. The chief end of man is to give glory to God
and enjoy him forever. The composer, Bach,
always signed his works with
S.D.G. (Soli Deo
Gloria--"To God alone, the glory")
Can you put that at the end of every work that you
do in the name of Jesus? We must be
careful that the praise of men does not tempt us to lay aside our humility and
rob the glory from God. Someone said
that humility is not thinking less of yourself, but not thinking of yourself at
all.
Micah 6:8 “What does the Lord require of you oh
man, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.”
Let your light shine today so that all men may know that
God is …….
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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