1 Corinthians 13:3 “If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
Completely…for CHRIST!
Insincere gifts are as half-hearted cries;
Insufficient at best and at worst, worthless lies.
So too is one’s Faith if “for show” it is shared;
Thus an empty placeholder who’s pretending to care.
Like food partly cooked, or a soup that’s lukewarm, so no one enjoys those whose hearts aren’t transformed.
So give all to CHRIST as HIS sacrifice teaches and find every self-serving part lies in pieces.
There your whole heart’s surrender will gain GOD’s increase till each soul’s intersection HE brings you — believes!
As HIServant re-reminded to completely be poured out every day so as to impart all of CHRIST to whomever I meet,
Whitney
Devotional: Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with CHRIST. It is no longer I who live, but CHRIST WHO lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the SON of GOD, WHO loved me and gave HIMSELF for me.”
Our introductory verse in 1 Corinthians 13:3: What a “heart- check!”
What Joy since HE did die and rise again for us and what compelling to serve HIM relentlessly!
Unconscious Complacency then is the enemy of every Believer.
If we won’t share HIS NAME and the Joy we have in HIM — anywhere — then we certainly can’t be counted on to preach HIM everywhere.
The height of one’s zeal for our SAVIOUR then determines the witnessing “level of engagement” we’re known for.
What good then are half-hearted efforts?
Who’s moved to confess and covert all to CHRIST when the living billboard in front of them is so dimly lit?
That’s the reason the title for every poem I’ve written for HIM has an exclamation mark after it!
So be one who shines fully for HIM always, oh my soul!
Philippians 2:15 “..be blameless and innocent, children of GOD without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you SHINE as lights in the world.”
Be lovingly and fully lit then as HIS brightest spotlight!
Amen and amen!
2CJC 