Fellow Labourers-
Whilst reading this article a number of thoughts flowed through my mind. I think how some of us think we are God's gift to the church so we must be handled with utmost care. Some of us think we were so bad that only crassness appeals to us. Then there are those who fall between both extremes. This leads me to reflect on the three chairs with the labels Commitment, Compromise and Confusion. On which of these chairs do you sit?
Last night (Sunday, Sept. 13) I heard someone saying that he is not going to be jealous of anyone's giftedness since he has no control over that. But he is not going to let anyone be more committed than he was because he has control over that. So what does he do? He makes the choices that allows him to fulfill his purpose. He can do this because he knows his purpose. What's your's?
T.D. Jakes in his book Can you stand to be blessed? says that "what Christians so often refer to as grace truly is God's divine enablement to accomplish predestined purpose." Yes, God empowers whom he employs. He is never intimidated with our circumstances.
The beatitudes begins with Blessed are the poor in spirit.Why? Because God can only fill what is empty. In order to be what God wants us to be, we must first come to that place where we say "empty me of self." I find myself singing "Search me O God and try me and cleanse me from my wicked ways" instead of "see if there be any wicked ways in me." Because like the Apostle Paul I know that in my flesh dwells no good thing.
Pax Vobiscum
Robert A. Stewart
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