Shalom,
Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is priceless for our spritual growth!
Service Of
Passionate Devotion
Lovest thou
Me?…Feed My sheep. — John 21:16
Jesus did
not say — Make converts to your way of thinking, but look after My sheep, see
that they get nourished in the knowledge of Me. We count as service what we do
in the way of Christian work; Jesus Christ calls service what we are to Him,
not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based on devotion to Jesus Christ, not
on adherence to a belief or a creed. “If any man come to Me and hate not…, he
cannot be My disciple.” There is no argument and no compulsion, but simply —
“If you would be My disciple, you must be devoted to Me.” A man touched by the
Spirit of God suddenly says — “Now I see Who Jesus is,” and that is the source
of devotion.
To-day we
have substituted credal belief for personal belief, and that is why so many are
devoted to causes and so few devoted to Jesus Christ. People do not want to be
devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started. Jesus Christ is a source of
deep offence to the educated mind of to-day that does not want Him in any other
way than as a Comrade. Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of His
Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of
His obedience to the Father. If I am devoted to the cause of humanity only, I
will soon be exhausted and come to the place where my love will falter; but if
I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity though
men treat me as a door-mat. The secret of a disciple’s life is devotion to
Jesus Christ, and the characteristic of the life is its unobtrusiveness. It is
like a corn of wheat, which falls into the ground and dies, but presently it
will spring up and alter the whole landscape (John 12:24).
AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "You Are Life":
Shalom in Him!