Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is another very good lesson for the born again believer to know, understand and DO!
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not,… but rather rejoice because
your names are written in heaven. — Luke 10:19-20
Jesus
Christ says, in effect, Don’t rejoice in successful service, but rejoice
because you are rightly related to Me. The snare in Christian work is to
rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you.
You never can measure what God will do through you if you are rightly related
to Jesus Christ. Keep your relationship right with Him, then whatever
circumstances you are in, and whoever you meet day by day, He is pouring rivers
of living water through you, and it is of His mercy that He does not let you
know it. When once you are rightly related to God by salvation and
sanctification, remember that wherever you are, you are put there by God; and
by the reaction of your life on the circumstances around you, you will fulfil
God’s purpose, as long as you keep in the light as God is in the light.
The
tendency to-day is to put the emphasis on service. Beware of the people who
make usefulness their ground of appeal. If you make usefulness the test, then
Jesus Christ was the greatest failure that ever lived. The lodestar of the
saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does
through us that counts, not what we do for Him. All that Our Lord heeds in a
man’s life is the relationship of worth to His Father. Jesus is bringing
many sons to glory.
For the born again believer, ALL glory goes to the ONE we call our LORD and SAVIOR! The only thing that we did was to BELIEVE the Word and RECEIVE His wonderful, free GIFT of eternal salvation! THAT is the most important decision that any of us has EVER made! WE called on His Name and then HE did all the rest! By His Spirit we were made a completely new person, with our sin nature forever removed (2 Corinthians 5:17)! NOW He will continually lead, guide and direct us into our personal Ministry of Reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18-20). We will all be rewarded in Heaven for our obedience to Him, NOT for the number of things that we did, or for the number of people we reached, or the number of ANYTHING! We will simply all be rewarded for our obedience to HIM! So, make sure that YOU are staying, daily, in vital and intimate fellowship with Him so that you can hear and DO what He has for you to do! AMEN! With His appearing soon upon us, let's get busy with it! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "Go"!
Shalom in Him!
