Do not rejoice in this, that
the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are
written in heaven. —Luke 10:20
“Jesus Christ is saying here,
“Don’t rejoice in your successful service for Me, but rejoice because of your
right relationship with Me.” […] you will never be able to measure fully what
God will do through you if you do not 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). […] 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. […]
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. […] Jesus is “bringing many sons to glory…”
(Hebrews 2:10).” CHAMBERS
Most often when we consider
our Christian lives, we think of the here and now. We don’t think in terms of the truth that on
the day we were reborn, we were reborn into eternal life. (1
John 5:11-12) “And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He
who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have
life.” It is hard for us think beyond
the next blink of our eyes. We have
eternal life in heaven. Life is only
going to get better. But in the meantime …. (2
Corinthians 4:7-10) “…we have this
treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and
not of us. We are hard-pressed on every
side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down,
but not destroyed— always carrying about
in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be
manifested in our body.”
The only way that you are going to live with an
eternal perspective is by fortifying your spiritual life. That is the reason I get up early and write
these words. I want to encourage you to
pursue the Lord and live a life of faith.
(Ephesians 3:18-19) “to grasp
how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this
love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the
fullness of God.” We have a glorious hope
for tomorrow and a glorious purpose for today … to show the world Jesus by word
and deed. Are you ready? ELGIN
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