The My Utmost For His Highest reading today, Jan 10, is responsible for my formulating the following questions for your consideration after which you may click on the link below so you can read the devotional for yourself for even greater clarity. Enjoy!
How do we identify or even quantify our call to discipleship in the fellowship process of His Kingdom?
Are we being sent to assist in opening others eyes so they too, may receive their forgiveness of sins?
Do we fail to thrive because we’ve not yet received and acknowledged our gift?
Is our gift limited to the absolute and total assurance of forgiveness for our Sin?
Is our work for Jesus (by the act of either discipleship or being ambassadors) to open people’s eyes so that they may turn themselves from darkness to light?
Such action (turning from darkness to light) by me or you is not salvation; it is conversion— the required effort by an “awakened and seeing” human being.
Perhaps the current stalemate in the church today is because that though our eyes have once been opened, we’ve not yet received our gift? Perhaps this process of our identity pretension is feeding the chaos and confusion characterizing our churches today?
Should not a born again person KNOW that he has received the Gift of Salvation from Almighty God and not merely think because he made a decision, that he is redeemed…. when such thinking may fuel dangerous pretensions and possibly even, the cultural social gospel phenomena ?
Therefore, by not knowing but merely thinking so, is it possible for you and I to make vows and promises being determined to follow through and not realize none of that is actually salvation?
Does not our salvation bring us to right standing with God where we are able to receive our gift from God on the authority of Jesus Christ, namely the forgiveness of our sins?
Is it not then this position of right standing (our inheritance among the sanctified) for the one who has received the gift of salvation and is engaged in the process of sanctification, to deliberately forfeit all rights to himself/herself and inwardly agree to being sent forth that we may indeed help “to open their eyes…that they too may receive their gift, the forgiveness of sins.” Acts 26: 17-18.
Fellow Seekers, this indeed, is heavy stuff to process. Now you may read what Oswald Chambers wrote titled The Opened Sight that sent me down these bunny trails… Perhaps we snicker at the Pharisee 600+ executive orders that Jesus contended with, but what are we doing that succinctly and precisely clarifies His methodology for living and building His Kingdom today in our spheres of influence?