{"id":473928,"date":"2025-03-04T01:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=473928"},"modified":"2025-03-04T01:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:18:00","slug":"could-this-be-true-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/could-this-be-true-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Could This Be True of Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I consider my life worth nothing to me.
\u2014 Acts 20:24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s easier to serve God without a calling than with one. It\u2019s easier to be unbothered by his requirements and to let common sense be your guide\u2014common sense with a thin veneer of Christian sentiment on top. If you choose to serve God in this way, you\u2019ll be more successful and leisure-hearted. But if you have received the call, the memory of it will never let you be. Once you receive a commission from Jesus Christ, it is impossible to continue working for the Lord on the basis of common sense.
What do you truly value? If you haven\u2019t been gripped by Jesus, you value your own acts of service, your own offerings to God, your own life. You take on practical work in his name, not because you\u2019ve been called to it but because you want to be appreciated by the people around you. \u201cLook how useful I am,\u201d you think. \u201cLook how valuable.\u201d Practical work often competes with abandoning yourself to God. Instead of letting Jesus Christ tell you where to go and what to do, you follow your own commonsense judgment about where you\u2019ll be most valued.
The Holy Spirit warned Paul that \u201cprison and hardships\u201d awaited him, should he choose to follow Jesus Christ (Acts 20:23). Acts 20:24 reveals Paul\u2019s almost sublime annoyance at the idea that he would consider himself. His own life, he says, is worth nothing to him. The only thing that matters to him is fulfilling the ministry he\u2019s been given, and he refuses to use his energy for anything else. He is absolutely indifferent to anything except completing the Lord\u2019s task.
Never consider whether you are useful. Ever consider that you belong not to yourself but to him.
By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I consider my life worth nothing to me.\u2014 Acts 20:24 It\u2019s easier to serve God without a calling than with one. It\u2019s easier to be unbothered by his requirements and to let common sense be your guide\u2014common sense with a thin veneer of Christian sentiment on top. If you choose to serve God in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}