For some reason, I've been shaken to the core of my purpose. I’ve been shaken all day. In all I’m doing… am I doing what God has called me to do? Am I consecrated to HIS call? It’s good that I’m being shaken here at the beginning of school. It’s sobering, but it’s good.
As I traveled this summer, I was struck with the magnitude of the people who have yet to hear the message… struck with the magnitude of people who don’t embrace the truth of the Gospel. As I type, I realize that while I’m speaking primarily of the saving grace of the Good News, that I myself don’t consistently embrace certain truths of the Gospel either. It’s time to walk free. It’s time to believe the Word. This is worship and honoring the Lord God… my Lord Jesus who’s sacrifice was great.
I have administrative gifts, and they will be and are being used for His purposes and His glory. But I have taken my eyes off of my calling, and it’s time to stir up the gifts and press on toward the mark. I cannot forsake one for the other.
As I was working and listening to some music today, I also became overwhelmmed thinking about the martyr's cause and challenged by those who had laid down their lives for Christ over the course of history. I wept and wept, mostly because I was being challenged in my own heart.
Just like Jesus, those who have been martyred have not had their lives "taken" from them, but THEY have laid their lives down. In my heart I heard, "The only one who can have their life taken from them is the one who hasn't already given it freely and fully away to Jesus Christ." Tonight was another one of those moments of consecration... my life for Jesus... choosing to lay it down even as I live. Thank you, Lord...
"For I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live I live by faith in the one who loved me and gave Himself for me." Gal 2:20
As I traveled this summer, I was struck with the magnitude of the people who have yet to hear the message… struck with the magnitude of people who don’t embrace the truth of the Gospel. As I type, I realize that while I’m speaking primarily of the saving grace of the Good News, that I myself don’t consistently embrace certain truths of the Gospel either. It’s time to walk free. It’s time to believe the Word. This is worship and honoring the Lord God… my Lord Jesus who’s sacrifice was great.
I have administrative gifts, and they will be and are being used for His purposes and His glory. But I have taken my eyes off of my calling, and it’s time to stir up the gifts and press on toward the mark. I cannot forsake one for the other.
As I was working and listening to some music today, I also became overwhelmmed thinking about the martyr's cause and challenged by those who had laid down their lives for Christ over the course of history. I wept and wept, mostly because I was being challenged in my own heart.
Just like Jesus, those who have been martyred have not had their lives "taken" from them, but THEY have laid their lives down. In my heart I heard, "The only one who can have their life taken from them is the one who hasn't already given it freely and fully away to Jesus Christ." Tonight was another one of those moments of consecration... my life for Jesus... choosing to lay it down even as I live. Thank you, Lord...
"For I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live I live by faith in the one who loved me and gave Himself for me." Gal 2:20
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