MONDAY, 15TH JANUARY, 2024.
Author:
PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer
TOPIC: LIVING FOR CHRIST
MEMORIZE: “For me to live
is Christ, and to die is gain.” Philippians 1:21
SCRIPTURE READING: “According
to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but
that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my
body, whether it be by life, or by death. 21 ¶ For to me to live is Christ, and
to die is gain. 22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour:
yet what I shall choose I wot not. 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having
a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: 24 Nevertheless
to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. 25 And having this confidence, I
know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy
of faith; 26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by
my coming to you again.”
Philippians 1:20-26
EXPOSITION:
The believer did not always
live to Christ. He began to do so when God the Holy Spirit convinced him of
sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the dying Saviour making a
propitiation for his guilt. From the moment of the new and celestial birth the
man begins to live to Christ. Jesus is to believers the one pearl of great
price, for whom we are willing to part with all that we have. He has so
completely won our love, that it beats alone for him; to his glory we would
live, and in defence of his gospel we would die; he is the pattern of our life,
and the model after which we would sculpture our character. Paul’s words mean
more than most men think; they imply that the aim and end of his life was
Christ—nay, his life itself was Jesus. In the words of an ancient saint, he did
eat, and drink, and sleep eternal life. Jesus was his very breath, the soul of
his soul, the heart of his heart, the life of his life. Can you say, as a
professing Christian, that you live up to this idea? Can you honestly say that
for you to live is Christ? Your business—are you doing it for Christ? Is it not
done for self- aggrandizement and for family advantage? Do you ask, “Is that a
mean reason?” For the Christian it is. He professes to live for Christ; how can
he live for another object without committing a spiritual adultery? Many there
are who carry out this principle in some measure; but who is there that dare
say that he hath lived wholly for Christ as the apostle did? Yet, this alone is
the true life of a Christian—its source, its sustenance, its fashion, its end,
all gathered up in one word—Christ Jesus. Lord, accept me; I here present
myself, praying to live only in thee and to thee. Let me be as the bullock
which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and
let my motto be, “Ready for either”
PRAYER POINT: Lord,
help my prayer life to grow to fruition in Jesus name.
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