Aug 6

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8/6/2007 4:46 AM 

Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him love....
--Ephesians 1:4

Sin is a disease. It is lawlessness. It is rebellion. It is transgression--but it is also a wasting of the most precious of all treasures on earth. The man who dies out of Christ is said to be lost, and hardly a word in the English tongue expresses his condition with greater accuracy. He has squandered a rare fortune and at the last he stands for a fleeting moment and looks around, a moral fool, a wastrel who has lost in one overwhelming and irrecoverable loss, his soul, his life, his peace, his total mysterious personality, his dear and everlasting all!

Oh, how can we get men and women around us to realize that God Almighty, before the beginning of the world, loved them, and thought about them, planning redemption and salvation and forgiveness?

Christian brethren, why are we not more faithful and serious in proclaiming God's great eternal concerns?

How is this world all around us ever to learn that God is all in all unless we are faithful in our witness?

In a time when everything in the world seems to be vanity, God is depending on us to proclaim that He is the great Reality, and that only He can give meaning to all other realities.  A.W. Tozer - Christ the Eternal Son, 48.

"Forgive me, Lord. I fear that all too often I have let You down when You were depending on me. Use me today as a faithful servant. Amen."

 

What is amazing/awesome/incomprehensible to me is that although God could save anyone, anywhere, anytime, in any way He chooses, yet he chose to depend on us! In His omniscience he knows we will be at best, imperfect messegers carrying a perfect message. Why is that? Could it be that the message we carry is for those in whom he has begun a work of 'drawing them to Christ' (John 6:44)? Could it be that when the Holy Spirit sends the messenger and prepares the recipients heart, that the Lord of the Harvest will successfully communicate the message? B4B