"My Utmost For HIs Highest " by Oswald Chambers for today is very good and pertinent to us!
The
Key To The Missionary
All
power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations. — Matthew 28:18-20
The basis of missionary appeals is the
authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the heathen. We are apt to look upon
Our Lord as One Who assists us in our enterprises for God. Our Lord puts
Himself as the absolute sovereign supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not
say the heathen will be lost if we do not go; He simply says — “Go ye
therefore, and teach all nations.” Go on the revelation of My sovereignty;
teach and preach out of a living experience of Me.
“Then the eleven disciples went…into a
mountain where Jesus had appointed them” (v. 16). If I want to know the
universal sovereignty of Christ, I must know Him for myself, and how to get
alone with Him; I must take time to worship the Being Whose Name I bear. “Come
unto Me” — that is the place to meet Jesus. Are you weary and heavy laden? How
many missionaries are! We banish those marvellous words of the universal
Sovereign of the world to the threshold of an after-meeting; they are the words
of Jesus to His disciples.
“Go ye therefore.…” “Go” simply means live.
Acts 1:8 is the description of how to go. Jesus did not say — Go into Jerusalem
and Judea and Samaria, but, “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me” in all these
places. He undertakes to establish the goings.
“If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in
you…” — that is the way to keep going in our personal lives. Where we are
placed is a matter of indifference; God engineers the goings. “None of these
things move me….” That is how to keep going till you’re gone!
What a freedom there is in in simply believing and receiving! God has great plans for you! Just walk them out and you will be, of ALL people, MOST BLESSED!
Shalom in Him!
