{"id":474053,"date":"2025-03-05T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=474053"},"modified":"2025-03-05T02:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:56:01","slug":"is-he-really-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/is-he-really-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Is He Really Lord?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus. \u2014 Acts 20:24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joy comes from the ultimate fulfillment of my life\u2019s purpose\u2014that for which I was created and reborn. It doesn\u2019t come from the successful performance of a task. Jesus\u2019s joy lay in doing what the Father had sent him to do, and this is also where our joy lies: \u201cAs the Father has sent me, I am sending you\u201d (John 20:21).
Have I received a ministry from the Lord? If so, I have to be loyal to it. I have to count my life precious only for its fulfillment. Think of the joy and satisfaction that will come from hearing Jesus say, \u201cWell done, good and faithful servant!\u201d (Matthew 25:21). We all have to find our place in life, and spiritually we find it when we receive our ministry from the Lord. First, though, we must get to know Jesus as more than our personal savior; we must know him as an intimate companion. Only then will he reveal to us our purpose.
\u201cDo you love me?\u201d Jesus asked Peter. \u201cFeed my sheep\u201d (John 21:17). Notice how Jesus doesn\u2019t offer Peter, doesn\u2019t offer us, a choice about how to serve. The only possibility is absolute loyalty to his command, absolute loyalty to what we discern when we are close to him.
Sometimes we misunderstand the call. We think that we are being called by a certain need\u2014the need of God\u2019s children to hear the gospel, for instance, or to have someone intervene for them in prayer. But the need isn\u2019t what\u2019s calling us; the need is simply an opportunity for answering the call. The call itself is a call to absolute loyalty. God wants you to be loyal to the ministry you receive when you are close to him, whatever it may be. This doesn\u2019t imply that there is a specific campaign of service marked out for you, but it does mean that you will have to ignore the demands for service along other lines.
By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus. \u2014 Acts 20:24 Joy comes from the ultimate fulfillment of my life\u2019s purpose\u2014that for which I was created and reborn. It doesn\u2019t come from the successful performance of a task. Jesus\u2019s joy lay in doing […]<\/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-474053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474053","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=474053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}