‘Are the things we are living for worth Christ dying for?’
That question challenged me when it was first posed to me. To
understand it better I re framed it. What is the position of God in what am
doing? This simplified it for me, or so I thought. In 2nd
Corinthians 5:15 Paul writes,
“He died for everyone so that those who receive new life
will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who
died and was raised for them” (Life Application Study Bible, NLT)
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The exposition of this book challenges my spiritual life. I
mean, Jesus died for me to live for Him. Am I living for Christ? What is living
for Christ? Jesus surrendered his life for my sake. What a gesture of love!
Jesus considered his life worthless to reconcile me and you with God, and He
only expects me to live for him. In other words, whatever I do, Christ should
take the center stage.
Live for Christ? No. I have a career, I have a life to live
because life is short. These are some of the things that we think by living for
Christ we will lose or will be inconvenienced. This life is not our own. If it
was, no one would get sick or even die. The moment we confess that Christ is
our lord we should mean our words. Christ being my Lord means that, I will
allow God make good use of me according to His will; I don’t mind any
adjustments. Whatever Christ wants me to be, I should not object because He is
my lord. If I cannot allow God to use me according to His will, then I am the
“lord”
We may have many excuses on why we think God should not use
us. May be we don’t have finances to travel to a far city to preach the gospel.
May be we don’t want to lose our jobs. Its okay, you don’t need to travel miles
and miles for you to preach the gospel. You have neighbors, have they heard the
Gospel of Jesus Christ? To preach the Gospel you do not need a large crowd to
cheer you up. You need to transform only one soul and make that person a
disciple. Start preaching to your brothers, sisters, parents and even your
immediate neighbors. That’s how mission starts,just letting loose for God to use
you.
You do not have to quit your job to spread the gospel. God
has blessed you with that job for a reason. Take the opportunity and preach the
gospel to your workmates; explain the love of God to them. You even have enough
time to disciple them because you probably see and meet them daily. If you are
a student, you are better placed than anyone else. You have the energy and time
to preach the gospel. In your area of specialization, that’s your mission
ground.Let everyone you interact with know the gospel of truth before you ask
for an outreach.
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The main commissions according to Mathew 28:18-20, is to
spread the gospel of Jesus Christ making disciples just as Christ did.
Immediately you receive salvation, you no longer live for your own but for Him
who died for you. This simply means that we ought to spread the gospel of
Christ wherever we are. Let the people that you interact with understand that
someone sacrificed His live for the sake of ours.We have to let God be our Lord and allow Him to use us fully for His Glory.
Brother Meshack,
ReplyDeleteThis incredibly a good article!
I like the statement that "Immediately we receive salvation, we no longer live for our own but for Him who died for us!" He is Jesus Christ! He went through much for our redemption.
We will never know how much it cost to see our sins upon the Cross!
May we continually be built in Him.
Keep it up bro. Good Article!
Thanks Kenneth, I thank God for His gesture of love through Christ Jesus.I appreciate your feedback.
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