My Utmost for His Highest November 3

A BOND-SLAVE OF JESUS
"I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." Galatians 2:20 These words mean the breaking of my independence with my own hand and surrendering to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it myself. God may bring me up to the point three hundred and sixty-five times a year, but He cannot put me through it. It means breaking the husk of my individual independence of God, and the emancipating of my personality into oneness with Himself, not for my own ideas, but for absolute loyalty to Jesus. There is no possibility of dispute when once I am there. Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ - "For My sake." It is that which makes the iron saint. Has that break come? All the rest is pious fraud. The one point to decide is - Will I give up, will I surrender to Jesus Christ, and make no conditions whatever as to how the break comes? I must be broken from my self-realization, and immediately that point is reached, the reality of the supernatural identification takes place at once, and the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable - "I have been crucified with Christ." The passion of Christianity is that I deliberately sign away my own rights and become a bond-slave of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I do not begin to be a saint. One student a year who hears God's call would be sufficient for God to have called this College into existence. This College as an organization is not worth anything, it is not academic; it is for nothing else but for God to help Himself to lives. Is He going to help Himself to us, or are we taken up with our conception of what we are going to be? Wow, I think lately I have been taken up with my conception of what I am going to be. Sometimes I am so quick to forget God is in total control of my life. He has directed me every step of the way. I tend to play the what if game. What if I would have gone here, done this, stayed here....so on and so on. This journey I am on with Jesus is unique and it's about walking daily with HIM! I am constantly reminded to turn my eyes back to Jesus. It is like he gently reaches for my face and directs my eyes and gaze back to him. I am thankful that it is Christ who lives in me. Like the verse Galatians 2:20 "nevertheless I live; yet not I, But Christ liveth in me." Thank you Jesus that the pressure is not on me.