What does God expect of me?

What do I imagine or think God demands of me?

I have His Word to shape my life, my thoughts and my destiny.

I have His Spirit to guide, stimulate and order my thinking and doing.

I have the world which demands a solution with or without Him.

I have His promises by which He clarifies, defines and establishes me.

I have a heart which can respond to either the right or the wrong.

I have a Savior Who expects, yea demands that I follow Him, while allowing, is some sense a choice.

I have a destiny to play out for Him, before Him or I can play for others, my choice again.

I have His final command to "go and make disciples, teaching the what He told me.

How about you? Where are you going, for whom are you working, loving, serving?

Coach Charles

The Audiance of One

I play before an audiance of One, the Lord God.

All the rest are extras,

Everything else is rhetoric.

The audiance of One is the only audiance I have.

What is this audiance of One?

It is He with Whom I have to do.

If I please Him, nothing else matters....

If I don't please Him, nothing else matters.

I choose to play only for Him.

I do this because of what I am,

rather than

I am because I do.

There is nothing higher than playing for Him.

-Charles

 

Really, you a disciple of Jesus?

The above is my question. The real answer is that a disciple is a "called one," and so becomes a "follower of the Way." Os Guinness, Rise to the Call.

"Our primary calling as followers of Christ is by Him, to Him and for Him. First and foremost we are called to Someone (God), not to something or to somewhere (such as the inner city or Outer Mongolia.

"Our secondary calling, considering Who God is as Sovereign, is that everyone, every where and everything should think, speak, live and act entirely for Him.

"Bewaare of anything that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competition of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.... The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him."

"Do we enjoy our work, love our work, virtually worship our work so that our devotion to Jesus is off center? Do we put emphasis on service, or usefulness or being productive in working for God -- at His expense? Do we strive to prove our own significance? To make a difference in the world? To carve our names in marble or the monuments of time?

"The call of God blocks the path of all such deeply human tendencies. We are not primarily called to do something or to go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to some special work, but to God. The key is to be devoted to no one and and to nothing above God Himself. As Oswald Chambers said, 'The men and women our Lord sends went out on His enterprises and ordinary human stuff, plus dominating devotion to Himself wrought by the Holy Spirit.' The most frequent phrase in his writings: 'Be absolutely His'."

From Rising to the Call by Os Guinnes.

Coach Charles