{"id":3707,"date":"2008-11-21T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T01:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/os-chambers\/the-eternal-crush-of-things"},"modified":"2008-12-07T20:43:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T01:43:42","slug":"the-eternal-crush-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/11\/21\/the-eternal-crush-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ETERNAL CRUSH OF THINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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     I am made all things to all men, that I might by all
     means save some. <\/p>\n

     — 1 Corinthians 9:22<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A Christian worker has to learn how to be God’s noble man or woman
amid a crowd of ignoble things. Never make this plea – If only I were
somewhere else! All God’s men are ordinary men made extraordinary by
the matter He has given them. Unless we have the right matter in our
minds intellectually and in our hearts affectionately, we will be
hustled out of usefulness to God. We are not workers for God by
choice.<\/strong><\/u> Many people deliberately choose to be workers, but they have
no matter in them of God’s almighty grace, no matter of His mighty
word. Paul’s whole heart and mind and soul were taken up with the
great matter of what Jesus Christ came to do, he never lost sight of
that one thing. We have to face ourselves with the one central fact –
Jesus Christ and Him crucified. <\/p>\n

“I have chosen you.” Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is
not that you have got God but that He has got you. Here, in this
College, God is at work, bending, breaking, moulding, doing just as
He chooses. Why He is doing it, we do not know; He is doing it for
one purpose only – that He may be able to say, This is My man, My
woman. We have to be in God’s hand so that He can plant men on the
Rock as He has planted us. <\/p>\n

Never choose to be a worker, but when God has put His call on you,
woe be to you if you turn to the right hand or to the left. He will
do with you what He never did with you before the call came He will
do with you what He is not doing with other people. Let Him have His
way.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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