Service Secrets

   "Will ye also go away?" John 6:67

   "A penetrating question. Our Lord's words come home most when He talks in the most simple way. We know Who Jesus is, but in spite of that He says - "Will ye also go away?" "

   "From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him." They went back from walking with Jesus, not into sin, but they relapsed. Many to-day are spending and being spent in work for Jesus Christ, but they do not walk with Him. Never try to live the life with God on any other line than God's line, and that line is absolute devotion to Him. The certainty that I do not know - that is the secret of going with Jesus."

    I see at least two things in these sentences that hit me in my Christian life. One is that many of us, me included, are spending or being spent in work for Jesus Christ, but are not walking with Him. Therefore we are doing a lot in our own power and strength even if we are doing it for Him. We see a job to do, do it, and then come back to Jesus to walk with Him. Doing a task while continuing to walk with Christ would let Him carry us through.

   The second idea that " the certainty that I do not know-that is the secret of going with Jesus". There is the certainty that, indeed, I do not know the master plan because it is not mine, I am only working alongside the Master Himself. There is also the certainty that I do not know the way it will all work out in the end, in fact I do not even know how to get there. A lot of the time I want to see the ending before I even begin. How much better it would be to just Trust and Walk alongside.

   To Know that He Knows should be enough for me.

   Lord, let it be so......