Because this goes right along with yesterday's blog post, I am again going to share from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers:
It Is The Lord!
Thomas answered and said unto Him,
My Lord and my God. — John 20:28
"Give Me to drink.”
How many of us are set upon Jesus Christ slaking our thirst when we ought to be
satisfying Him? We should be pouring out now, spending to the last limit, not
drawing on Him to satisfy us. “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me” — that means a
life of unsullied, uncompromising, and unbribed devotion to the Lord Jesus, a
satisfaction to Him wherever He places us.
Beware of anything
that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of devotion
to Jesus is service for Him. It is easier to serve than to be drunk to the
dregs. The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to
do something for Him. We are not sent to battle for God, but to be used by God
in His battlings. Are we being more devoted to service than to Jesus Christ?
OUCH! This one can really hurt IF we have become guilty of trying to fulfill a ministry rather than all out obedience to the daily will of the Father! Remember from yesterday that our first and most important commandment is to LOVE the Lord our God with everything that is within us (Mark 12:30)! Everything else should pour out as fruit from that relationship and fellowship with HIM! The ministry that God has called us to is NOT hard! What IS hard is dealing with the flesh nature that craves acceptance and recognition from others and rewards that can be seen. Do you know what one of the BEST promises is that we have for being obedient to the LORD? Look at Proverbs 16:7:
7 When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
AMEN! When our enemies are at peace with us, then we are free to BE the LIGHT to those still lost in darkness! When we can freely and confidently cast every care over on HIM because we have meditated on the Word of God and spent time in intimate fellowship with Him, which causes that promise to be REAL, then we are care free and ready to go where He says go, do what He says do and say what He says to say! That gives HIM something to work with to draw them to Himself and show Himself off to them! We have an awesome privilege AND a vital responsibility to BE the LIGHT! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Children of the Light":
Shalom in Him!
