Thoughts for another day

April 10, 2014.

Today's verse:  2 Cor. 5:15. And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

From the beginning of the time when God created man, He has created him for Himself and so man must focus all his life on God and work on what pleases Him.  We were created the Bible says, for the praise of His glory, as even Paul says in Ephesians 1:12 says, ‘That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.’  You know, as humans on earth, our entire focus should be on God and only on Him; but in reality we find our focus is on everything else but God.

Besides, the above I once also made this shocking discovery:  Although I work for the Lord and love to go and address prayer meetings, Bible studies, etc.  I realised that I always wanted to talk about how much I put in to do it for the Lord and also when God worked a miracle through my hands, there was this inner boast that it was through me that the thing was accomplished.  Only recently did it strike me that I am robbing God of His glory for we know that all glory that accrues through the work of God and by that I won’t be wrong to consider all activities on earth; must be for God and God alone.  If He uses me as an instrument, it must not become a thing of pride for me and my ego must not be bloated as if it was me that did the work for by myself, I could hardly do anything.

We must remember my friend, that God is first and foremost in our lives and anything good that happens, happens by God alone and not by anything I can ever do.  To that end I must be prostrate before God in effusive praise for He deemed me fit to work through me.  If our attitude is one of humility and simplicity before God, He will work even more in our lives and raise us up.  We must never forget that Christ died for all so that we, who come to live on earth, must live unto Him, to do His work.  No agenda we have on earth, must be a block to doing God’s work and then we can sit back and see God’s tremendous work in us…it will be simply overwhelming.