‘We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts
to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only
one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see
Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy
experiment out of you— and His experiments always succeed. […] In the life of a
saint there is this amazing Well, which is a continual Source of original life.
The Spirit of God is a Well of water springing up perpetually fresh. A saint
realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are
no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. Never try to make your
experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as creative and original
with others as He is with you. If you abandon everything to Jesus, and come
when He says, “Come,” then He will continue to say, “Come,” through you. You
will go out into the world reproducing the echo of Christ’s “Come.” That is the
result in every soul who has abandoned all and come to Jesus.’ CHAMBERS
When we left the secular to follow after God, we left
behind all that would hinder is on the journey that God had laid before
us. Since then, many people have
marveled at what we have “given up”. The
truth of the matter is that none of it was really ours. Everything is God’s. That is why we are called stewards. Stewards take care of what is owned by
another. What we did was decide to fully trust God and not the things of this
world. We must always be on guard against
the subtle shift of devotion that will lead us far from God. We stop trusting God, the Maker of heaven and
earth, and start trusting what God has made for our security and
well-being. Big mistake. What Martie and I did was visible to people,
leaving our jobs and selling our possessions.
But what people did not see was what first had to happen in our
hearts. They saw our faith by our works …
but the faith springs from within, resulting in action or works. We ask people
not to marvel at we have done but marvel at the God who called us, who shaped
us, and who provided for us. This is our
encouragement to you.
Hebrews
12:1-2 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a
great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin
that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out
for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.”
You can do it with God’s help!
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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