Today's devotion -We need Him!!!

John 15:16-1716 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit — fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. NIV

When we hear people testify how much they sacrifice in obedience to God, it mostly focus on how much they lost and the price they paid. As if God brought them in a desperate situation and they have lost a better things in exchange for a lesser things. We must be reminded that none of us is needed by God to do what he intend in His creation and plan. Every called person must realized that is placed in a status of preveledge and purpose.
Phil 3:7-11
7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ — the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. NIV.

No matter what we lost in obeying Christ, it's not a reason to count it lost but a reminder that all we have is at His disposal. He who created can call any one and place anything to His subject.

On the other hand, God is so good to be thought of loosing something in following Him. Nothing we have that should not be at His call and nothing we recieved that we should not accept as for our good! (Rom 8:28)

Let's come to this conclusion, God don't need in anything, not even in worship. We need Him in everything. And in all His word said in His word to do is for our good, so that we can enjoy His goodness and benefit from obeying Him. If you are called by Him, leaved everything behind and follow Him with joy and look ahead while we lost everything for Him it's nothing to be compared in pleasing Him.

God bless and keep Him even if we might lost all things!

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