‘Our Lord said to Paul, in effect, “Your whole
life is to be overpowered or subdued by Me; you are to have no end, no aim, and
no purpose but Mine.” And the Lord also says to us, “You did not choose Me, but
I chose you and appointed you that you should go . . .” (John 15:16).
When we are born again, if we are spiritual at
all, we have visions of what Jesus wants us to be. It is important that I learn
not to be “disobedient to the heavenly vision”—not to doubt that it can be
attained. It is not enough to give mental assent to the fact that God has
redeemed the world, nor even to know that the Holy Spirit can make all that
Jesus did a reality in my life. I must have the foundation of a personal
relationship with Him. Paul was not given a message or a doctrine to proclaim.
He was brought into a vivid, personal, overpowering relationship with Jesus
Christ. Acts 26:16 is tremendously compelling “. . . to make you a minister and
a witness . . . .” There would be nothing there without a personal
relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person, not to a cause.’ CHAMBERS
When Martie and I first accepted Christ in 1976, I
had a vision of us devoting ourselves to ministry not to secular work and
living. It was nearly 20 years later
that we realized that vision. God’s
purpose for us was always clear and never changed .. although there were times
when it was clouded by the life we were living and the desires for what the world
had to offer.
Ephesians
2:8-10 “For it is
by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it
is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are
God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared
in advance for us to do."
Whatever it is that God has called you to do and
to be … you need to be that and do that … There is nothing better than to be in
the center of God’s will for your life.
What vision has He given you?
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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