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Many Christians ignore the fact that to live a fully consecrated life
for Christ is the normal Christian life; rather they consider it to be
a life merely for the few faithful and the fanatics for Christ. Our
Lord is dethroned more deliberately by Christians and even some
Christian workers than by the world. They treat God as if He is a
machine designed only to bless us, and Jesus as a miracle worker
to bring abundance to our lives. Yes, the Lord Jesus did say that
He came to bring us an abundant life (Jn 10:10); however, He is
not referring to a materially abundant life (else all of the Lord's
disciples would be deliriously wealthy, but they were not), but an
abundant entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ (2 Pet 1:11).
The goal of consecration is not that we will work for God, but that
He will be free to do His work in and through us. God calls us to
His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He
expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on
His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son for His
glory.
our lives for our own happiness and pleasure. Rather our true aim
in life, if the love of Christ constrains us, will be not I, but Christ
(Gal 2:20). Not for "me" at all, but all "for Christ"; not to secure
my safety, but to secure His glory; not for my comfort, but for His
joy; not for the fulfillment of my dreams, but for the fulfillment of
His grand purpose!
If we truly and fully surrender ourselves into His hands, He will
search and probe fully and firmly, though tenderly. Painfully as it
may be at times, but only that He may accomplish the very thing
we want to cleanse our vessel and fill us with the real treasure
of Himself, so that we may walk in real newness of life and live life
abundantly. Yet if we refuse to give ourselves unreservedly into
His hands, it is useless to be talking about being consecrated to
Him. The heart that is not entrusted to Him for cleansing and
transforming will not be undertaken by Him to be made His
abode. The life that fears to come to the light lest any deed
should be reproved, can never know the blessedness of fellowship
and the privileges of walking in the light with the Lord, even as He
is in the Light (1 Jn 1:7).
As he walks in the light, a consecrated person will see with
spiritual insight that God sovereignly controls his circumstances.
Oftentimes, we take our circumstances for granted, saying God is
in control, but not completely believing it. We act as if the things
that happen were really controlled by people. To live a
consecrated life in every circumstance means that we have only
one loyalty, or object of our faiththe Lord Jesus Christ. God may
cause our circumstances to suddenly fall apart, which may bring
the realization of our unfaithfulness to Him for not recognizing
that He had ordained the situation. We never saw what He was
trying to accomplish, and that exact event will never be repeated
in our life. This is where the test of our consecration comes. If we
learn to worship God accept His will even during the difficult
circumstances, we will enable Him to work out His good pleasure
in and through us.
Consecration may be the act of a moment, but it is the work of a
lifetime. It must be complete to be real, and yet, if real, it is
always incomplete; a point of rest, and yet a perpetual
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