Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is SO good and something that I have been praying about and sharing about lately!
His Commission to Us
Feed My
sheep. —John 21:17
This is love
in the making. The love of God is not created— it is His nature. When we
receive the life of Christ through the Holy Spirit, He unites us with God so
that His love is demonstrated in us. The goal of the indwelling Holy Spirit is
not just to unite us with God, but to do it in such a way that we will be one
with the Father in exactly the same way Jesus was. And what kind of oneness did
Jesus Christ have with the Father? He had such a oneness with the Father that
He was obedient when His Father sent Him down here to be poured out for us. And
He says to us, “As the Father has sent Me, I also send you” (John 20:21).
Peter now
realizes that he does love Him, due to the revelation that came with the Lord’s
piercing question. The Lord’s next point is— “Pour yourself out. Don’t testify
about how much you love Me and don’t talk about the wonderful revelation you
have had, just ‘Feed My sheep.’ ” Jesus has some extraordinarily peculiar sheep:
some that are unkempt and dirty, some that are awkward or pushy, and some that
have gone astray! But it is impossible to exhaust God’s love, and it is
impossible to exhaust my love if it flows from the Spirit of God within me. The
love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural
individuality. If I love my Lord, I have no business being guided by natural
emotions— I have to feed His sheep. We will not be delivered or released from
His commission to us. Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by following
your own natural human emotions, sympathies, or understandings. That will only
serve to revile and abuse the true love of God.
I REALLY love this line: "Jesus has some extraordinarily peculiar sheep"! YES! And I am one of them! And so are YOU! We are ALL unique, individual and peculiar! There is no cookie cutter way to minister to believers! But the Spirit of Almighty God KNOWS how to minister to each and every one! AMEN! Let's choose LOVE above all else, and then obedience to the leading of Holy Spirit as He uses each of us to minister to each other, and the Pastors to oversee it all! Here is Hillsong with "Who You Say I Am":
Shalom in Him!
