GOD’S OVERPOWER PURPOSE
GOD’S
OVERPOWER PURPOSE
“I have appeared to
you for this purpose . . .” (Acts 26:16).
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vision Paul had on the road to Damascus was not a passing emotional experience,
but a vision that had very clear and emphatic directions for him. And Paul
stated, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision”(Acts 26:19). Our Lord
said to Paul, in effect, “Your whole life is to be overpowered or subdued by
Me; you are to have no end, no aim, and no purpose but Mine. “And the Lord also
says to us, “You did not choose Me, but I
chose you and appointed you that you should go . . .” (John 15:16).
When we are born again, if we are
spiritual at all we have visions of what Jesus wants us to be. It is important
that I learn not to be “disobedient to the heavenly vision”—not to doubt that
it can be attained. It is not enough to give mental assent to the fact that God
has redeemed the world, nor even to know that the Holy Spirit can make all that
Jesus did a reality in my life. I must have the foundation of a personal
relationship with Him. Paul was not given a message or a doctrine to proclaim.
He was brought into a vivid, personal, overpowering relationship with Jesus
Christ. Acts 26:16 is tremendously compelling “. . . to make you a minister and
a witness . . . .” There would be nothing there without a personal
relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person, not to a cause. He was absolutely
Jesus Christ’s. He saw nothing else and he lived for nothing else. “For I determined
not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1
Corinthians 2:2).
MY
UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST
OSWALD
CHAMBERS
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