HOW WE LEARN OUR MISSION

HOW WE LEARN OUR MISSION

I do not see that any one could learn his mission but in nearness to the Lord. I see that in John 20: 21, the Lord sent His disciples, they were sent by Him. I read in Ephesians 4: 7, that “unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ”. I am assured that there is a special grace given to each (as each Christian is a member of Christ’s body), but I find that very few Christians have learned from Christ what his or her mission definitely is. I think many a Christian’s history confirms this opinion; ‘a wasted life’ is the true title of many a history.

It is plain enough that every Christian is called of God to something definite. The real difficulty is to ascertain the speciality, and this I do not think can be ascertained but in nearness to the Lord, and when you are interested in His interests. We first learn that He is interested in us, and then we gradually become interested in His interests. It is then you ascertain your mission.

I am glad that you are so interested in ————; the great thing to bring before him is Jesus on the cross, “the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3: 18), there is life in a look, he that looked lived. Marvellous truth! Christ was here for the sinner, and the sinner having received His grace is now to be here for Him. Could there be a greater favour or a greater privilege? The great work of grace in us is to transform us. The idea in the world is to improve, to effect an improvement. It is reformation, but the work of grace is transformation. You are the same person, but you are completely altered by having a new object, as the queen of Sheba was by seeing Solomon’s glory. It is a wonderful process. As the flower acquires its radiant colours from the sun, so may you be transformed by the glory of a greater than Solomon.

In beholding the Lord’s glory you are “transformed according to the same image”, and you have the power in you which is to effect this transformation, for it is “even as by the Lord the Spirit;” so that you see the work of grace is not to reform but to transform you, and the more obstructive the natural character the more evident is the transformation. I hope I am not writing too much, but I desire greatly that you should apprehend what a Christian should be as “a body of light”.

May the Lord bless you.