“Jesus Use Me”

​Where am I in my spiritual development? How far have I advanced in the Lord’s plan for my life in His service? The Apostle Paul touched on these thoughts in his letter to the saints in the church at Philippi. He spoke of his own service to the Lord as an example to all of us.

​“Not as though I had already attained (achieved, realize, accomplished), either were already perfect (unspoiled, mature, developed): but I follow after, if that I may apprehend (capture, catch, take into custody) that for which I am apprehended (captured) of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended (captured): but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching (to actively grasp, to extend) forth (forward, onward) unto those things which are before, I press (to be compelled, to pursue) toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”   Phil. 3:12-14

​The Lord had designated Paul as His ‘special vessel’ to take the Gospel to the Gentile world and we are part of the harvest of Paul’s faithfulness to his assignment. Paul’s overwhelming passion, and energy, was to proclaim Jesus Christ and Him crucified. This passion to be that ‘special vessel’, for the proclaiming of Christ, took Paul all the way to Rome, as a prisoner, where he would finally be executed.

​But notice Paul’s words to Timothy before he died, “for I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished (concluded, completed), my course, I have kept the faith.” II Tim. 4:6-7

​May we all remember that we have proclaimed Jesus as our Lord and we should have a passion to know, and carry out, His will for our lives in His service.  Paul also told Timothy that a “good soldier must not get entangled (ensnared, trapped) with the affairs of this life.”

II Tim. 2:3-4

SEE YOU SUNDAY – BRO. ED