MY
UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - February 5th & 6th.
ARE
YOU READY TO BE OFFERED? Part One
"Yea,
and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service
of
your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Philippians 2:17
Are
you willing to be offered for the work
of
the faithful - to pour out your life
blood
as a libation on the sacrifice of the faith of others? Or do you say
- "I am not going to be offered up just yet, I do not want God
to
choose my work.
I want to choose the scenery
of
my own sacrifice; I want to have the right kind of people watching
and saying, 'Well done.'
It
is one thing to go on the lonely way with dignified heroism, but
quite another thing if the line
mapped
out for you by God
means
being a door-mat under other people's feet.
Suppose God
wants
to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"
- are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not
so much as a drop
in
a bucket - to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never
thought of again in connection with the life
you
served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be
ministered
unto,
but to minister? Some saints cannot do menial work
and
remain saints because it is beneath their dignity.
ARE
YOU READY TO BE OFFERED? Part Two
"I
am already being poured out as a drink offering." 2 Timothy 4:6
"I
am ready to be offered." It is a transaction of will, not of
sentiment. Tell
God
you
are ready to be offered; then let the consequences be what they may,
there is no strand
of
complaint now, no matter what God
chooses.
God
puts
you through the crisis in private, no one person can help an other.
Externally the life
may
be the same; the difference is in will. Go through the crisis in
will, then when it comes externally there will he no thought of the
cost. If you do not transact in will with God
along
this line,
you will end in awakening sympathy for yourself.
"Bind
the sacrifice with cords,
even unto the horns
of
the altar." The altar means fire-
burning and purification and insulation
for
one purpose only, the destruction of every affinity that God
has
not started and of every attachment that is not an attachment in
God.You
do
not destroy it, God
does;
you bind the sacrifice to the horns
of
the altar; and see that you do not give way to self- pity when the
fire
begins.
After this way of fire,
there is nothing that oppresses or depresses. When the crisis arises,
you realize that things cannot touch
you
as they used to do. What is your way of fire?
Tell
God
you
are ready to be offered, and God
will
prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed
He
would be.
Oswald
Chambers
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