Thought For Today - March 14, 2024
Here To Serve Him!
By: Robert A. Searles
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians
2: 10.
When God created us his purpose was that we should be
instruments in his hands which he could use to fulfill his purpose,
and bring glory to himself. When we yield ourselves to him to do his
bidding, we find great satisfaction, and our joy and happiness is
fulfilled. Though we are all sinners and have come short of the glory
of God, God has provided a way by which we can be forgiven and
reconciled to him by receiving Jesus Christ as our sin bearer and
Savior.
The word of God teaches us that every saved, born again
child of God is given at least one spiritual gift whereby we can
minister as ministering servants so that we might show forth the
unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see the glory of
God. We ought to ask God to reveal to us the one or more gifts which he
has assigned to us, and ask God to help us to develop it so that we
might bear fruit for him.
It was always God's will that the
gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partake of
his promise in Christ by the gospel. Paul says: “Whereof I was made a
minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the
effectual working of his power. Unto me who am less than the least of
all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the
gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ and to make all men see what
is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world
hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the
intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places
might be known by the the church the manifold wisdom of God according
to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: in
whom we have boldness and access with confidence by faith of him.
Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulation for you which is
your glory.” Ephesians 3: 7-13
It is God's will that those
around us in the world hear the gospel so that they also might see and
know of the unsearchable riches of Christ. We are responsible to God to
use the gifts he has given us to make this a reality. With the gift,
God gives the boldness and confidence to utilize it for his glory. If
we will yield ourselves to him - God is able to do with us,-- “exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that
worketh in us.” Ephesians 3: 20 Someone said to D. L. Moody: “It has
not yet been seen what God could do with a man or woman who was totally
yielded to him.” Moody is reported to have said. “By God's grace, I
want to be that man.” Moody went ahead and won two continents to
Christ. The power that worketh in us is the person of the Holy
Spirit, and when one is willing to yield himself to the guidance and
leadership of the Holy Spirit, he can be filled with all the fullness of
God.
“That he would grant you, according to the riches of his
glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man:
That Christ may dwell in your heart by faith; that ye being rooted and
grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the
breadeth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of
Christ, which passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with all the
fullness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly
above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in
us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all
ages, world without end. Amen.” Ephesians16-21
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