ARE YOU READY TO BE OFFERED? by Oswald Chambers

sermonindex Feb 5, 2010

~~[b]~~ARE YOU READY TO BE OFFERED?[/b]

"Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Philippians 2:17

Are you willing to be offered for the work of the faithful - to pour out your life blood as a libation on the sacrifice of the faith of others? Or do you say - "I am not going to be offered up just yet, I do not want God to choose my work. I want to choose the scenery of my own sacrifice; I want to have the right kind of people watching and saying, 'Well done.'

It is one thing to go on the lonely way with dignified heroism, but quite another thing if the line mapped out for you by God means being a door-mat under other people's feet. Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased" - are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket - to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister? Some saints cannot do menial work and remain saints because it is beneath their dignity.

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sojourner7 Feb 5, 2010

We are an offering; may we spend and be spent for
the glory of GOD and the cause of Christ!!

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Goldminer Feb 5, 2010

Mat 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Mat 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Jhn 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

Luk 14:10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

Jhn 13:4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
Jhn 13:5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe [them] with the towel wherewith he was girded.

Luk 9:48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.

It is a curious thing to think about. But even among the rich an famous what is admired most? When Bill Gates gives away his million, a star raised money for Haiti, a football legend becomes a big brother. They are not really recognized so much because of what they have but of what they give.

In God's design His children are to live this type of life at all times. Pour out, the lowest place, obscurity for most. But known in heaven.

Very good word here.

sermonindex Feb 5, 2010

"How happy I will be (in the day of judgement) if the lamp of my life has been burnt out for thee!" - C.T. Studd