SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/27/2024 7:54 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Availability”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 28:16
Message of the verses: “But the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated.”
I
want to repeat what I wrote at the end of my last SD to help us to see where we
will be going: “In the final message of Christ reported by Matthew, Jesus gives five explicit or
implicit elements that are necessary for His followers to fulfil their supreme
mission on earth—to reach the mountain peak of their calling, as it were. These essential elements may be summarized as
availability, worship, submission, obedience, and power.”
I want to talk about what the first three elements for
effectively fulfilling the church’s mission and they are attitudes, and the
first one implied in the fact that the eleven disciples were where the Lord had
told them to be.
The following is a statement that someone astutely
observed many years ago, which has to do with service to the Lord: “The greatest ability is availability.” The most talented and gifted Christian is
useless to God if he is not available to be used by God, just as God’s greatest
blessings are not available to those who are not present to receive them.
MacArthur writes “Faithful discipleship does not begin
with knowing where you will be serving the Lord or in what capacity. It does not start with having a clear call to
a certain ministry, or occupation, or place of service. It always
begins with simply being available to God, putting all reservations and
preconceptions aside.”
Now think about this as it is important for us to
understand and it has to do with what happened in the garden as the eleven
disciples had not received the blessing of seeing the resurrected Jesus
because, unlike the faithful women, they were not there. However no, the eleven were where Jesus
wanted them to be, and so consequently they received His Great Commission and
His great promise.
MacArthur then writes:
“Both before and after the resurrection Jesus said He would meet His
disciples in Galilee (see Matt. 26:32; 28:7, 10). He had called a great conclave of His
followers for the purpose of commissioning them to reach the world in His name,
and now they were gathered at the appointed place.
“We are not told when or how the Lord specified the exact
time and place in Galilee where they were to gather, but they were now at the particular
mountain which Jesus had designated on some previous occasion.”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I really like the
term availability as it has great meaning to me, to be available to do what the
Lord wants me to do for the cause of Christ when He desires me to be
there. My passion is to be available to
write my Spiritual Diaries each and every day in order to put them onto the
internet on my blogs for people to read.
I pray each day after putting these SD’s on my blogs that God would use
them to bring people to Christ in order for them to be saved. Next to cause believers to grow in their walk
with the Lord, and then for revival to come upon believers, and then, and this
is important, that the Holy Spirit will send these Spiritual Diaries around the
world to bring glory to the Lord.
Finally, and I always mention if it is God’s will on this last one, and
that is that the Holy Spirit would use one of these Spiritual Diaries to bring
salvation to the last person in the Church age in order for the rapture to take
place. I am very much looking forward to
that event.
My Steps of Faith
for Today: I trust that the Lord
will use these SD’s to accomplish His will, and I trust that our time in Sunday
school this morning will be profitable.
10/27/2024 8:23 AM
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