Ready At Any Cost To Glorify God
SCRIPTURE: 2 Cor. 4:11-12- For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
Let us be clear, too, as to the object of this power, the work it is to do. Men are very careful to
economize power and to gather it there where it can do its work most effectually. God does
not give this power for our own enjoyment, –as little to save us from trouble and effort. He
gives it for one purpose, to glorify His Son. Those who in their weakness are faithful to this
one object, who in obedience and testimony prove to God that they are ready at any cost to
glorify God, -they will receive the power from on high. God seeks men and women whom
He can thus clothe with power. The Church is looking round for them on every side,
wondering at the feebleness of so much of its ministry and worship. The world waits for it, to
be convinced that God is indeed in the midst of His people. The perishing millions are crying
for deliverance, and the Power of God is waiting to work it. Let us not be content with the
prayer for God to visit and to bless them, or with the effort to do the best we can for them.
Let us give up ourselves, each individual believer, wholly and undivided, to live as witnesses
for Jesus. Let us plead with God to show His people what it means that they are Christ\’s
representatives just as He was the Father\’s. Let us live in the faith that the Spirit of power is
within us and upon us.
PRAYER
Lord, let the flame of the Holy Spirit blaze upon the altar of my heart in the mighty name
of Jesus.
Father, order my steps and let my purpose aligned with the plans of the Holy Spirit in
Jesus’ name.