How do you know that you are a true servant of the Lord Jesus Christ?
When others start treating you as a servant, sadly in this day and age of self-glorification servanthood is not something that fits well with the so called modern day Christian.
The following piece crossed my path and brought me to a deeper introspection of my heart and my walk with Yeshua Messiah. I’d like to share it with you.
Others May: You CANNOT
If God has called you to be really like Jesus He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility, and put upon you such demands of obedience, that you will not be able to follow other people, or measure yourself by other Christians, and in many ways He will seem to let other people do things which He will not let you do.
Other Christians and ministers who seem very religious and useful, may push themselves, pull wires, and work schemes to carry out their plans, but you cannot do it, and if you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you sorely penitent.
Others may boast of themselves, of their work, of their successes, of their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing, and if you begin it, He will lead you into some deep
mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.
Others may be allowed to succeed in making money, or may have a legacy left to them, but it is likely God will keep you poor, because He wants you to have something far better than gold,
namely, a helpless dependence upon Him, that He may have the privilege of supplying your needs day by day out of an unseen treasury.
The Lord may let others be honoured and put forward, and keep you hidden in obscurity, because He wants to produce some choice fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade. He may let others be great, but keep you small. He may let others do a work for Him and get the credit for it, but He will make you work and toil on without knowing how much you are doing; and then to make your work still more precious He may let
others get credit for the work which you have done, and thus make YOUR REWARD TEN TIMES GREATER when JESUS COMES.
The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you, with a jealous love, and will rebuke you for little words and feelings or for wasting your time, which other Christians never feel distressed over. So make up your mind that God is an Infinitely Sovereign Being, and has a right to do as He pleases with His own. He may not explain to you a thousand things which puzzle your reason in His dealings with you, but if you absolutely sell yourself to be His love slave, He will wrap you up in Jealous Love, and bestow upon you many blessings which come only to those who are in the inner circle.
Settle it forever then that you are to DEAL DIRECTLY WITH the HOLY SPIRIT, and that He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue, or chaining your hand, or closing your eyes, in ways that
He does not seem to use with others. Now, when you are so possessed with the living God that you are, in your secret heart, pleased and delighted over this PECULIAR, PERSONAL, PRIVATE,
JEALOUS GUARDIANSHIP and MANAGEMENT OF the HOLY SPIRIT OVER YOUR LIFE, then you will have found the vestibule of Heaven.
-G.D.Watson (1845-1924)
See 2 Cor 13:5, Mark 8:36
Are you challenged by this writing in such a way that you will change your current thinking, or do you just see it as another written piece that bombard our mind and senses on a daily basis and then move on unchanged? Please leave your comment.
Shalom
Wynand Rossouw
Wynand, dankie dat jy nie bang is om altyd die Waarheid en waarheid te verkondig nie!!! Dit dwing ‘n mens om self ondersoek te doen!
Shalom
Comment by Vicky — February 23, 2010 @ 8:22 am
Dankie,ons het dit so nodig om te onthou wie ons in Jesus is..Ons vergeet so maklik omdat die wereld ons so anders wil laat glo,dankie Here dat U vir ons daagliks op besonderse wyse herinner wie ons in U is,AMEM!
Comment by Louisa Schulz — February 23, 2010 @ 9:29 am
Hi Wynand,
Baie dankie vir hierdie kosbare skrywe, dit het my aan die dink gesit, maar ek voel tog dat die Here meer moet word in ons lewens en ons minder (Johannes 3:30). Dit het tyd geword dat ons moet toelaat dat die Here ons gedagtes vernuwe en dat ons elke dag onsself as lewende en heilige offers aan God gee (Romeine 12:1-2). As Jesus werklik nommer een in ons lewens word dan sal ons manier van dink verander. Die woord van die Here sê: Fillipense 2:5 “Dieselfde gesinheid moet in julle wees wat daar ook in Christus Jesus was” Ons moet die wêreld en die mense om ons deur God se oë begin sien!
Shalom
Comment by Hennie Strydom — February 25, 2010 @ 4:31 pm
Ja Wynand, ek stem saam met jou! Jesus het gese dat as ons deur die mense vereer wil word, het ons ons loon weg! Ons regterhand moenie weet wat die linkerhand doen nie! God se loon is soveel meer waardevol as menslike verering en lof! Die Koninkryksreels verskil van die wereldse maar die resultate is onbeskryflik! Liefde in Jesus!
Valerie
Comment by Valerie Rautenbach — March 1, 2010 @ 2:29 pm
Wow, ek het nie woorde om jou aan jou te verduidelik hoe die Heilige Gees my na hierdie blog toe gelei het nie. Ek kan 100% assosieer met bg. Ek en my man worstel al so lank met dit, voel of ander christene met alles kan wegkom en nogsteeds floreer maar wanneer daar net n gedagte aan ongehoorsaamheid by ons is, stop Vader ons net daar. Geselskap word moeiliker en ooglopende keuses is nou voel vrae. Ek voel verlig deur wat ek gelees het en weet ons is ” On the road less travelled ” Die nou pad is n werklikheid in ons lewens en baie van die dinge wat christene se MOET so wees is net mengemaakte opinies.
Comment by Lena-Marie Wepener — March 4, 2010 @ 4:35 pm
Wynand
Vanoggend op Radio Kansel terwyl ek besig was om klaar te maak vir werk,bel hierdie ou dame wat mense wil seen.Ek luister hodat sy in nederigheid vir Johan se dat Jesus vir haar sonde gesterf het so wat n nederige dienskneg dit is wat ons moet wees maar deesdae soos jy se wil ons nie meer andere bedien nie.ons wil bedien word
Comment by Cheryl Richards — March 11, 2010 @ 12:45 pm
Hello Wynand,
Ek luister elke oggend na Radio Kansel vir sielskos en om my te laat opstaan in die oggend. Ek is soos ‘n spons wat alleenlik die wil van God wil doen om sodoende gelei te word deur die Heilige Gees. Alleenheid is vir my vreeslik om te hanteer op ‘n jeugdige ouderdom van 43. Nadat my man op 7 Oktober 2008 koelbloedig doodgeskiet is en nou is my jongste dogter ook saam met haar suster op Universiteit is, is dit eweskielik so alleen. Ek weet dat God my styf vashou en sal beskerm in hierdie tyd totdat ek weer my passie vir die lewe sal ontdek. God is altyd dieselfde soos ‘n “Yesterday, today en tomorrow” boompie. Daar is soveel verkeerde afdraai paaie…. EEN DAGI OP ‘N SLAGI… Ek hou vas aan Rom 8 se laaste twee verse…. NIKS sal my skei van die liefde van my Here nie…. geen dood, engele of bose magte nie.. Die Here seen Radio Kansel en dankie vir al jou en Johan Els se bemoediging.
Comment by Marilise van der Merwe — March 15, 2010 @ 2:20 pm