OUR MISSION IF WE CHOOSE TO ACCEPT! SELFLESS, SACRIFICIAL AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR OTHERS!

Sep. 6, 2015

OUR MISSION IF WE CHOOSE TO ACCEPT! SELFLESS, SACRIFICIAL AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR OTHERS!

Christ schedule was never so hectic that He lost focus of His goal, there was never time lost in idleness, or gossiping to his disciples about the seven devils He cast out of Mary. Christ was always serving the needs of others.

And those needs were always based on His mission; selfless, sacrificial, and unconditional love for mankind, a passion that drove Him all the way to Calvary. And my friends, there is no greater love!

In Christ 33 years on this earth, His earthly ministry was only to serve, “Jesus spent time praying, teaching, helping, healing and interacting daily with men and women from every social, educational, and economic class.”

As our example, there must be a passion for us to serve as well. “For the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few” and I refer to workers as anyone who claims to be “heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.”

“For I have given you an example which you also should do just as I have done to you” John 13:15 (KJV). My friends, what time we have left on this earth must not be centered on self, we are at the threshold of the promise land and workers are needed in Christ vineyard.

Our passion to serve must transcend into an urgency as we look at the closeness of Christ soon return. There is nothing in us, or of ourselves by which we can influence others for good if Christ is not at the center of our life.

And once we realize this and understand our need of God’s Holy Spirit to guide us, then we must with a passion, go out into our communities which are the front line of the battle field, seeking lost souls, telling them “Jesus saves.”

Then and only then, can we say with no reservations, we are a chosen vessel, stewards of God, commissioned to go into all the world, preaching the good news of the gospel to every creature.

“Life is too solemn to be absorbed in temporal and earthly matters, in a treadmill of care and anxiety for the things that are but an atom in comparison with the things of eternal interest. Yet God has called us to serve Him in the temporal affairs of life.

Diligence in this work is as much a part of true religion as is devotion. The Bible gives no endorsement to idleness. It is the greatest curse that afflicts our world. Time squandered can never be recovered.

We cannot call back even one moment. The only way in which we can redeem our time is by making the most of that which remains, by being co-workers with God in His great plan of redemption.

In him who does this, a transformation of character takes place. He becomes a son of God, a member of the royal family, a child of the heavenly King. He is fitted to be the companion of the angels.” (Ellen G. White Christ’s Object Lessons)

Friends! We often complain about never enough time to serve! We tell ourselves if there were only more hours in the day! But our problem is not that we don’t have enough time to serve Christ.

Rather, our problem is we have not been convicted or transformed by the Holy Spirit, because once our Character has been transformed into the image of God, our mission then becomes like Christ, selfless, sacrificial, and unconditional love for Him, and for others. And once this transformation takes place, we then begin to value our time with a passion, in relationship to Jesus Christ and his will for our lives.

My Friends, where there is no vision, the people perish…..Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)