Would You Change What You Just Did?

"Act in the way you want it to come out at the judgment seat of Christ." J. Brereton

Consecration and Service

"God wants us before He wants anything we can do for Him. There is a danger of being consecrated to service for the Lord, rather than to the Lord Himself." ~The Christian Digest, vol. X, No. 3, p. 31, March, 1945.

It's so easy to be caught up in doing, doing, doing for the Lord without thought of what He really wants. And that is communion with Himself. He desires our company every single moment of the day. "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." Rev. 3:20. But He won't push at the door. We must open to Him.

"The Slothful Man"

"The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting."

How often is it that we read our Bibles, pray and go out about our day with no thought of what we just read? Or how often do we come away from a meeting saying, "That was a great meeting!" and then never think of it again? If we can't get a hold of everything that was before us, perhaps there was just one thought we can hang on to and meditate on throughout the day. Even to go over our notes of meetings the next time we have a quiet time would be "roasting" what we took.

It's been said that "meditation is a lost art". Psalm 1 says that "in His law doth he meditate day and night" and the result was friut for God. "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." Ps. 1:3. Do I, do you, want to be slothful or fruitful and prosperous? Being fruitful would mean we bear the attributes of Christ as in the fruit of the Spirit, ie, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Prosperous? Perhaps it would be enjoying the benefits of one who bears those attributes.

"If any be a hearer of the Word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." James 1:23-24