0024. Christ–The Purpose of My Life

Christ–The Purpose of My Life

"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (1Co_10:31).

If Christ is the predestinator of my life, if He produced it, certainly everything that I have and everything that I do, should center in Him. It should all be done to His glory. David said, "I have set the Lord alway before my face". Alas, many of us have set many ideals before our face, other than Christ. Some are living for self, some are living selfishly for others. Some are rushing along after the goddess of pleasure. Some are pursuing fame, some are seeking riches. All of these things, the Spirit-filled believer will cast behind him. Everything that he does will be to the glory of Christ. Everything will sum up in Him.

Paul said sadly, "All seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s". Paul even recognized this tendency in his own life, when he wrote, "As soon as I can look away from the things concerning myself." How few there are who have sunk out of self and into Christ.

The Apostle Paul early learned to throw out as refuse, the many things which might have accrued to him as a member of the Sanhedrin, or a Pharisaical zealot, or as a leader among the Christ-rejecting Jews.

The Apostle Paul counted no service too hard, no trial too severe, to endure in behalf of Christ. Where is the believer today who has suffered more, borne more, or served more than Paul?

If, for a moment, he really did think of himself, it was but for a moment; for his life, even until he drew his last breath, was poured out as a drink offering to his Lord. May the passion which possessed Paul possess every one who reads these lines. May our lives have one aim, one purpose–to live for Christ.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR