‘Suppose God tells you to do something that is an
enormous test of your common sense, totally going against it. What will you do?
Will you hold back? […] Again and again you will come right up to what Jesus
wants, but every time you will turn back at the true point of testing, until
you are determined to abandon yourself to God in total surrender. Yet we tend
to say, “Yes, but— suppose I do obey God in this matter, what about . . . ?” Or
we say, “Yes, I will obey God if what He asks of me doesn’t go against my
common sense, but don’t ask me to take a step in the dark.” […] In the
spiritual realm, Jesus Christ demands that you risk everything you hold on to
or believe through common sense, and leap by faith into what He says. Once you
obey, you will immediately find that what He says is as solidly consistent as
common sense. […]Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new
opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.’ CHAMBERS
William Carey, the famous missionary in India,
said “Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.” What God asks each of us to do is not the
same. It is a function of the grace
given and the faith applied, all in the context of His purposes and plans. Purposes and plans that he made long before
any of us were born. Look at the people of faith in the Bible and you will see
that they were “ordinary” people chosen by God for His work. God selected them … but they had to say “yes”. They had to trust the One who called
them. It is a mystery why God uses us …
He can do whatever He wants to do … and He did and does … He uses mere men and
women to accomplish “great things” for the kingdom.
A longtime friend and Brother shared this
scripture with me the other day. It sums
this up quite well.
2
Corinthians 4:7-12 (The Message) “If you only look at us, you
might well miss the brightness. We carry
this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives.
That’s to prevent anyone from confusing
God’s incomparable power with us. As it is, there’s not much chance of
that. You know for yourselves that we’re
not much to look at. We’ve been surrounded and battered by troubles, but
we’re not demoralized; we’re not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we’ve been spiritually
terrorized, but God hasn’t left our side; we’ve been thrown down, but we
haven’t broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture,
mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives! Our
lives are at constant risk for Jesus’ sake, which makes Jesus’ life all the
more evident in us. While we’re going through the worst, you’re getting in on
the best!”
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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