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Are You Ready To Be Poured Out As an Offering?
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“Shut out every other
consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only — My Utmost
for His Highest. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for
Him alone.”
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By Oswald Chambers
“If I am being
poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am
glad and rejoice with you all.” — Philippians 2:17
Are you willing to
sacrifice yourself for the work of another believer — to pour out your life
sacrificially for the ministry and faith of others?
Or do you say, “I am not willing to be poured out right
now, and I don’t want God to tell me how to serve Him. I want to choose the
place of my own sacrifice. And I want to have certain people watching me and
saying, ‘Well done.’”
It is one thing to
follow God’s way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another
thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a “doormat” under
other people’s feet.
God’s purpose may be to teach you to say, “I know how
to be abased…” (Philippians 4:12).
Are you ready to be
sacrificed like that?
Are you ready to be
less than a mere drop in the bucket — to be so totally insignificant that no
one remembers you even if they think of those you served?
Are you willing to
give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted — not seeking to be
ministered to, but to minister?
Some saints cannot
do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude, because they feel such
service is beneath their dignity.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as
having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately
determined to have my own way?
It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth. The Place of
Help, 1005 R
Oswald Chambers was born in Scotland and spent much of his boyhood
there. His ministry of teaching and preaching took him for a time to the United
States and Japan. The last six years of his life were spent as principal of the
Bible Training College in London, and as a chaplain to British Commonwealth
troops in Egypt during World War l. After his death, the books which bear his
name were compiled by his wife from her own verbatim shorthand notes of his
talks.
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