SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION

Matthew 16:25 NKJV
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

OUR PRAYER!

All things are in your control heavenly Father, including our walk to eternal life with you. We ask Lord for you to reveal through the Holy Spirit how to appropriately share our gift with those trapped in the darkness of this world. We pray for Father a deep discernment and understanding of how to use your gifts to be the most effective example of reflecting your light love and compassion to them. Deepen our enthusiasm and determination to withstand the wiles of the enemy, preventing us from approaching them. Fill us with determination to expel our doubts and fears. We give thanks to you, Lord, and pray this in your name, Yeshua, and all of God’s children say Amen and Amen.

COMMENTARY!

A true disciple of Christ is one who follows him duty-free and shall follow him to glory. He is one that walks in the same way Christ walked in, is led by his Spirit, and treads in his steps, wherever he goes “Let him deny himself.” If self-denial be a hard lesson, it is no more than what our Master learned and practised, to redeem us, and to teach us “Let him take up his cross” The cross is here put for every trouble that befalls us.

We are apt to think we could bear another’s cross better than our own; but that is best which is appointed to us, and we ought to make the best of it. We must not by our rashness and folly pull crosses down upon our own heads, but we must take them up when they are in our way.

If any man has the name and credit of a disciple, let him follow Christ in the work and duty of a disciple. If all worldly things are worthless when compared with the life of the body, how forcible the same argument with respect to the soul and its state of never-ending happiness or misery!

Thousands lose their souls for the most trifling gain, or the most worthless indulgence, nay, often from mere sloth and negligence. Whatever is the object for which men forsake Christ, that is the price at which Satan buys their souls. Yet one soul is worth more than all the world. This is Christ’s judgment upon the matter; he knew the price of souls, for he redeemed them; nor would he underrate the world, for he made it.

The great desire of our souls should be to see Jesus; to see him as ours, to keep up communion with him, and to derive grace from him. The calling of the Gentiles magnified the Redeemer.

A seed of wheat yields no increase unless it is cast into the ground. Thus, Christ might have possessed his heavenly glory alone, without becoming man. Or, after he had taken man’s nature, he might have entered heaven alone, by his own perfect righteousness, without suffering or death; but then no sinner of the human race could have been saved. The salvation of souls hitherto, and henceforward to the end of time, is owing to the dying of this seed of wheat.

Let us search whether Christ be in us the hope of glory; let us beg him to make us indifferent to the trifling concerns of this life, that we may serve the Lord Jesus with a willing mind, and follow his holy example.

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children said Amen and Amen.