February
14
I am glad when I suffer
for you in my body, for I am participating in the sufferings of Christ that
continue for His Body (Colossians 1:24 NLT).
Paul knew something of
that "suffering for His Body's sake"; "filling up that which was
lacking of the sufferings of Christ." We must face that! The thing that is
going to count for God is the sharing in His travail. There is all the romance
of Christian work but, that is mere glamour; all the enthusiasm and interest of
organized Christian activity; but it is not what we are before men in this
matter that counts, but what we are before God in the secret place, having
heart concern for the Lord's testimony.
Have you a burden, a
passion? Is the breakdown in the Lord's testimony in the earth among those upon
whom His Name is called a heartbreak to you? We shall never get anywhere till,
in measure, His travail is entered into by us. Ministry, in its real, abiding,
eternal value, will depend upon the measure in which the travail is entered
into by us. This is a day for travail: whether it be a travail for the unsaved
or for the Lord's people; every true spiritual activity is born out of travail,
and those who have been most used of God in every time have been men and women
who had this travail in their soul, in their secret life with God. Have you got
it? Perhaps you say no. Then ask the Lord to bring you into His concern;
stretch yourself out before God to be brought into His burden for the time in
which you live.
This photograph was posted on Facebook by Radha Steindl.
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