A Bondservant of Jesus

My Utmost For His Highest: December 3

"I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me..." Galatians 2:20

These words mean the breaking and collapse of my independence brought about by my own hands, and the surrendering of my life to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it myself. God may bring me up to this point three hundred and sixty-five times a year, but He cannot push me through it. It means breaking the hard outer layer of my individual independence from God, and the liberating of myself and my nature into oneness with Him; not following my own ideas, but choosing absolute loyalty to Christ to understand what He meant when He said, "...for My sake" (Matthew 5:11). That is what makes a strong saint.

Has the breaking of my independence come? All the rest is religious fraud. The one point to decide is -- will I give up? Will I surrender to Jesus Christ, placing no conditions whatsoever as to how the brokenness will come? I must be broken from my own understanding of myself. When I reach that point, immediately the reality of the supernatural identification with Jesus Christ takes place. And the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable -- "I have been crucified with Christ..."

*The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.*

One student a year who hears God's call would be sufficient for God to have called the Bible Training College into existence. This college has no value as an organization, not even academically. Its sole value for existence is for God to help Himself to lives. Will we allow Him to help Himself to us, or are we more concerned with our own ideas of what we are going to be?

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I had to post this!

Lord Jesus, help me to be a Your bondservant. Loosen the grip I have on my life, my plans, my ideas that I hold so tightly too. Help me to surrender, placing no conditions on how the brokenness will come. Lord even as I type this I understand this is not humanly possible. Thank you for the power of the Holy Spirit within me. Only You can change me. Change me. Help me to surrender each minute, until I can go an hour...a half a day...a day. Thank you that You alone are good. You alone are Holy. Your ways are perfect.