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Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
God’s Soldier
“With the commission comes action. An intercessor accepts the full meaning of a commission–that it is God’s declared intention to fulfill some saving purpose by him, and that everything he has and is, is going into it. No one is more active than he–call him God’s Soldier, God’s servant, God’s husbandman, God’s athlete. Let us make no mistake–activity, not passivity, marks him for what he is. ‘A body has thou prepared me,’ he says with Jesus.
My own life has been spent in a missionary crusade, so I can draw my illustrations most easily from it; but that must not give any misleading idea that a foreign missionary is some very holy or very special kind of servant of Jesus Christ. You don’t think that for long if you are one, or live among them!
They are the most ordinary humans, just seeking to answer what they understand to be the call of God to them, not any different from any housewife or business man who equally seeks to answer what he understands to be his call. But I have seen by them for over forty years what dedicated action means. There is a goal to be reached: it is going to be reached.”
Taken from: The Spontaneous You
By Norman Grubb
Page 109-110