After a very successful and well
received funeral with many old faces surfacing from deep within the crevasse of
Don’s past life and now with the still of the morning denting my thoughts with uncanny
ease as I reflect on so many things and all at the same instance. “Be still” I
say and focus! Look to Jesus, call on Him and you will hear the still small
voice of God the Holy Spirit giving my thoughts traction as He always does. He
is faithful and true, but one must look to Jesus, seeking Him out as the first point
of call; believing that He is not only capable but willing and able to meet every
one of our needs. Not our selfish wants, let us not make that mistake. Whatever
is needed for today which will equip us to find the joy of the Lord regardless
of the day’s challenges?
Why do we so easily forget to get our
priorities straight, Jesus first and the rest to follow…? When has anyone of us
ever gone on a holiday without preparing for it? We fill up with gas, check the
pressure in our tires, pack what we think will be needed and off we go excited
for what lies ahead. God help us to clean out the cobwebs that obscure our
sight of what really counts; storing up treasures for eternity. But for this to
happen we must be committed to the gospel, no differently to a person committed
to any worthy scheme. It must become our objective to reach this goal as we
look to fill up our trunks to overflowing. So how do we do this?
We must from the outset be committed to
our Saviour and His will and not our own wants. We must learn to lose our life
in order to find it! More of Him and less of ourselves, this is such an obtrusive
thought and we instinctively look to dispel it before it can take root. Sin has
taken care of that, but Christ has defeated sin and we now have the mind of
Christ. If in fact we belong to Him. Going without so that others may have must
take root in our thought process for us to begin to grasp the call that God has
placed on our lives. It is here that we will find the joy of the Lord and His peace
will cause us to sing, “It is well with my soul”! Only then will we be able to echo
the words of our brother Paul; “But whatever gain I
had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as
loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his
sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order
that I may gain Christ” (Philippians
3:7-8)
Do not let our independence and the
lies we have been taught throughout the throes of life rob us of this privilege
which is ours in Him. We must lose our lives in order to find it! This is true
liberation not independence storing up treasures in this life for our
retirement.
Yesterday’s memorial service was such
a beautiful reminder of this truth, we must get to know Him at every expense
regardless of the cost, and we must become spendthrifts to make this our own
reality. Time is short let us spend the remainder of what we have left wisely,
as we boldly place all we have on our great Saviour’s finished work as nothing
else will stand the test of time, for it will wither and it shall perish.
I beseech everyone who names the name
of the Lord to seriously consider what I have penned as we provoke one another to
good works in Him. Forgetting what is behind let us press on to the mark of the
high calling of God which is found in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Signing off
Tyrone
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