I know that many born again believers desire with all of their hearts to serve the LORD and to bring glory to His Name! Sometimes, in all of our good intentions, we can lose sight of the MOST important assignment that we have! No, it is NOT the great commission, though that is of utmost importance! THIS is what our most important assignment is, from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers:
The Most
Delicate Mission On Earth
The
friend of the Bridegroom. — John 3:29
Goodness and purity ought
never to attract attention to themselves, they ought simply to be magnets to
draw to Jesus Christ. If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not
holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection
and lead souls away into side-eddies. A beautiful saint may be a hindrance if
he does not present Jesus Christ but only what Christ has done for him; he will
leave the impression — “What a fine character that man is!” — that is not being
a true friend of the Bridegroom; I am
increasing all the time, He is not.
In order to maintain this
friendship and loyalty to the Bridegroom, we have to be more careful of our
moral and vital relationship to Him than of any other thing, even of obedience.
Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital
connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that. Only
occasionally do we have to obey. When a crisis arises we have to find out what
God’s will is, but the greater part of the life is not conscious obedience but
the maintenance of this relationship — the friend of the Bridegroom. Christian
work may be a means of evading the soul’s concentration on Jesus Christ.
Instead of being friends of the Bridegroom, we may become amateur providences,
and may work against Him whilst we use His weapons.
Do you remember what Jesus said when asked what the MOST important commandment was? Matthew 22:37-38:
37 And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). 38 This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment. AMP
Before we try to tell anyone ABOUT Him, we must get to KNOW Him! How do we do that? By spending TIME with Him on a moment by moment, daily basis! When we fall completely in love with JESUS, we will NOT have to take a class on how to 'witness', we will BE a witness of all that He is! When WE love HIM with everything within us, HE is Who people first encounter when they come into our presence! All of our 'work' for the LORD MUST flow out of that or it will not ring true to people. It will seem as though we are play-acting! Be REAL! Be IN LOVE with JESUS! HE will increase and WE, our own humanity, will decrease in the eyes of those we minister to! Here is Hillsong Worship with a song that reflects the heart in LOVE with JESUS! "Behold (Then Sings My Soul)":
Shalom in Him!
