The lesson from today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is something that every born again believer should get inside!
I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians. —Romans 1:14
Paul was overwhelmed with the sense of his indebtedness to Jesus Christ, and he spent himself to express it. The great inspiration in Paul’s life was his view of Jesus Christ as his spiritual creditor. Do I feel that sense of indebtedness to Christ in regard to every unsaved soul? The spiritual honour of my life as a saint is to fulfil my debt to Christ in relation to them. Every bit of my life that is of value I owe to the Redemption of Jesus Christ; am I doing anything to enable Him to bring His Redemption into actual manifestation in other lives? I can only do it as the Spirit of God works in me this sense of indebtedness.
I am not to be a superior person amongst men, but a bondslave of the Lord Jesus. "Ye are not your own." Paul sold himself to Jesus Christ. He says – I am a debtor to everyone on the face of the earth because of the Gospel of Jesus; I am free to be an absolute slave only. That is the characteristic of the life when once this point of spiritual honour is realized. Quit praying about yourself and be spent for others as the bondslave of Jesus. That is the meaning of being made broken bread and poured out wine in reality.
We know from John 10:10 that our Father desires for us to walk in the complete fullness of Life that He has within Himself.
10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
The REASON for our being blessed here on earth is so that others may see HIS hand on our lives and desire to know Him, too. If this were not so, we would have no reason to be here! He could have everyone go immediately to Heaven after receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior! Jesus said that HE came to seek and save the lost, and THAT is what He has now commissioned US to do! Have YOU made HIS #1 priority, YOUR #1 priority? That's what HE is waiting for us to do! Then HE can work with us, confirming His Word with signs, wonders and miracles. I love this quote from our partners, Jerry and Marilyn O'Dell:
"When we want what God wants, for the same reason He wants it, we cannot fail!"
Let's learn to develop the same mindset towards the lost that Jesus Himself has and we will not fail to please HIM, AND to be blessed in this life, and much more in the next! AMEN! Here is Hillsong United with "Take It All":
Shalom in Him!
