Shalom,
Today I want to again share "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers:
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” (verse 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!
Here is Hillsong with "No Reason To Hide":
Shalom in Him!