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November 16, 2007
STILL HUMAN!
Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=1co+10:31&sr=1
The great marvel of the Incarnation slips into ordinary childhood's
life; the great marvel of the Transfiguration vanishes in the
devil-possessed valley; the glory of the Resurrection descends into a
breakfast on the sea-shore. This is not an anti-climax, but a great
revelation of God.
The tendency is to look for the marvellous in our experience; we
mistake the sense of the heroic for being heroes. It is one thing to
go through a crisis grandly, but another thing to go through every
day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, no one
paying the remotest attention to us. If we do not want mediaeval
haloes, we want something that will make people say - What a
wonderful man of prayer he is! What a pious devoted woman she is! If
you are rightly devoted to the Lord Jesus, you have reached the
sublime height where no one ever thinks of noticing you, all that is
noticed is that the power of God comes through you all the time.
Oh, I have had a wonderful call from God! It takes Almighty God
Incarnate in us to do the meanest duty to the glory of God. It takes
God's Spirit in us to make us so absolutely humanly His that we are
utterly unnoticeable. The test of the life of a saint is not success,
but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up
success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the
glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God
in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual
conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.
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