This from today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers, is very important for every born again believer, and especially important for those involved in public ministry!
Labourers together with God. —1 Corinthians 3:9
Beware of any work for God which enables you to evade concentration on Him. A great many Christian workers worship their work. The one concern of a worker should be concentration on God, and this will mean that all the other margins of life, mental, moral and spiritual, are free with the freedom of a child, a worshipping child, not a wayward child. A worker without this solemn dominant note of concentration on God is apt to get his work on his neck; there is no margin of body, mind or spirit free, consequently he becomes spent out and crushed. There is no freedom, no delight in life; nerves, mind and heart are so crushingly burdened that God’s blessing cannot rest. But the other side is just as true – when once the concentration is on God, all the margins of life are free and under the dominance of God alone. There is no responsibility on you for the work; the only responsibility you have is to keep in living constant touch with God, and to see that you allow nothing to hinder your co-operation with Him. The freedom after sanctification is the freedom of a child, the things that used to keep the life pinned down are gone. But be careful to remember that you are freed for one thing only – to be absolutely devoted to your co-Worker.
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."
The absolute MOST important thing that we, as born again believers, are instructed to do is THIS from Mark 12:30:
30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
Everything else will fall into place when HE is our #1 Priority. The "work" He has called us to do is to represent HIM in the earth as His ambassadors. 2 Corinthians 5:20:
20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ’s personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.
We cannot do this properly without having intimate fellowship with Him, through His Word and by His Spirit. AMEN! Make the adjustments that YOU need to make in order to love HIM most of all, and then get ready to be used by Him in mighty ways to reach the lost! THAT is HIS #1 priority! That's how YOU got here (Luke 19:10)! Here is Hillsong with "Lost Are Found":
Shalom in Him!
