Night is coming, when no one can work !: From each Family!

Friday, October 1, 2010

From each Family!

From each Family!

Reading: 1 Samuel 1:9-28
"For this child I prayed ... He will belong to the Lord his whole life"
(1 Sam 1:27,28)

God had only one Son and He sent Him as a missionary-martyr to this world. If you have two children, you have one too many to give away to serve the Lord! Jesus was most precious to the Father (Prov 8:27-30). The Father was ready to sacrifice His daily delight for the sake of the "sons of men" because He "so loved the world" (Jn 3:16). There was nothing more precious to God than His Son. But He spared Him not! (Rom 8:32). Can we do less to save our fellowmen?
Isaac (meaning "laughter") was the daily delight of the old couple Abraham and Sarah. When God demanded that they sacrifice their sole joy, Abraham hesitated not a moment because he loved God more than he loved his son. Abraham was rewarded. Abraham got back his "laughter," now sanctified. Anyone who leaves anything for the sake of the Gospel shall receive a hundredfold (Mt 19:29).
God told Moses, "Set apart for me all the firstborn; it is Mine" (Ex 13:2). If only Christian parents the world over had given away their firstborn to serve God, the world would have been evangelised long long ago. We are two boys to our parents and I am the eldest. My parents were largely responsible for my becoming a missionary. I stepped out to serve God fulltime in 1975 on the 3rd of this month.
You ask, "How can I send my son or daughter to the ministry without a call?" Did you get a call through a vision or a voice to make him or her a doctor or an engineer? Why this partiality when it comes to God and His Kingdom? There was never a time in the history of the Church when there were too many missionaries or preachers (Mt 9:37). Send that brilliant child, or the one who earns well, to God's work.
Zacharias and Elizabeth were childless till their old age. When God blessed them with a baby boy they let him "go" to make a people ready for Christ's first coming (Lk 1:7,13,14,17,80). Shall we let our children "go" all over the world to prepare people for His Second Coming? Let there be a missionary going forth from each family!

---From Stanley on bible

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Malachi 3:3

Malachi 3:3 says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.
One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.
That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining Silver.

As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed. The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?"

He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it." If today you are feeling the heat of the fire , remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.

This very moment, someone needs to know that God is watching over them. And, whatever they're going through, they'll be a better person in the end.