Gene Tatsch
16th September 2008, 10:09 AM (10:09)
This is on my monthly "review reading" to re-calibrate my perspective on life as a Servant of the Living God.
Some years ago, Charles Hummel wrote this little essay that starts out "Have you ever wished for a thirty-hour day". Enough to grab my attention!
Very quickly he moves to the observation that in John 17 Jesus says to the Father "I have finished :eek: the work which Thou gavest me to do" - an astounding statement in the context of all the obviously "undone work" in the world.
IF Jesus, who knew full well the undone work, and who could have done far "more" than He did, could calmly leave undone so many worthy/important tasks and yet could say to the Father "I have completed the work You gave Me" ... and Who promises to put His own Spirit in us ...
THEN its expected (not optional) of us, as His disciples, that we let His Spirit radically transform us to live & act in complete dependence on the Father, too.
Our "job" is to be discipled on the "how" - His guidance and our actions.
gene --
Some years ago, Charles Hummel wrote this little essay that starts out "Have you ever wished for a thirty-hour day". Enough to grab my attention!
Very quickly he moves to the observation that in John 17 Jesus says to the Father "I have finished :eek: the work which Thou gavest me to do" - an astounding statement in the context of all the obviously "undone work" in the world.
IF Jesus, who knew full well the undone work, and who could have done far "more" than He did, could calmly leave undone so many worthy/important tasks and yet could say to the Father "I have completed the work You gave Me" ... and Who promises to put His own Spirit in us ...
THEN its expected (not optional) of us, as His disciples, that we let His Spirit radically transform us to live & act in complete dependence on the Father, too.
Our "job" is to be discipled on the "how" - His guidance and our actions.
gene --