Submitting to God’s Purpose
I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. —1 Corinthians
9:22
A Christian worker has to learn how
to be God’s man or woman of great worth and excellence in the midst of a
multitude of meager and worthless things. Never
protest by saying, “If only I were somewhere else!” All of God’s people are
ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given
them. Unless we have the right purpose intellectually in our minds and lovingly
in our hearts, we will very quickly be diverted from being useful to God. We
are not workers for God by choice. Many people deliberately choose to be
workers, but they have no purpose of God’s almighty grace or His mighty Word in
them. Paul’s whole heart, mind, and soul were consumed with the great purpose
of what Jesus Christ came to do, and he never lost sight of that one thing. We
must continually confront ourselves with one central fact— “…Jesus Christ and
Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2). “I chose you…” (John 15:16). Keep these
words as a wonderful reminder in your theology. It is not that you have gotten
God, but that He has gotten you. God is at work bending, breaking, molding, and doing exactly as He chooses. And why is He
doing it? He is doing it for only one purpose— that He may be able to say,
“This is My man, and this is My woman.” We have to be
in God’s hand so that He can place others on the Rock, Jesus Christ, just as He
has placed us.
Never choose to be a worker, but
once God has placed His call upon you, woe be to you
if you “turn aside…to the right or the left…” (Deuteronomy 28:14). He will do
with you what He never did before His call came to you, and He will do with you
what He is not doing with other people. Let Him have His way.
(Taken from Oswald Chambers –
“My Utmost for His Highest” October 25)