{"id":477210,"date":"2025-03-24T03:07:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T21:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=477210"},"modified":"2025-03-24T03:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T21:37:41","slug":"decreasing-into-his-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/decreasing-into-his-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Decreasing Into His Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-00c346a61bfedba351a652c59ab4021d wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>He must increase, but I must decrease. \u2014 John 3:30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you become a necessity to a soul, you are out of God\u2019s order. As a worker, your great responsibility is to be a friend of the Bridegroom. When once you see a soul in sight of the claims of Jesus Christ, you know that your influence has been in the right direction, and instead of putting out a hand to prevent the throes, pray that they grow ten times stronger until there is no power on earth or in hell that can hold that soul away from Jesus Christ. Over and over again, we become amateur providences; we come in and prevent God, and say \u2014 \u201cThis and that must not be.\u201d Instead of proving friends of the Bridegroom, we put our sympathy in the way, and the soul will one day say \u2014 \u201cThat one was a thief, he stole my affections from Jesus, and I lost my vision of Him.\u201d<br>Beware of rejoicing with a soul in the wrong thing, but see that you do rejoice in the right thing. \u201cThe friend of the Bridegroom\u2026rejoiceth greatly because of the Bridegroom\u2019s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.\u201d This is spoken with joy and not with sadness \u2014 at last they are to see the Bridegroom! And John says this is his joy. It is the absolute effacement of the worker, he is never thought of again.<br>Watch for all you are worth until you hear the Bridegroom\u2019s voice in the life of another. Never mind what havoc it brings, what upsets, what crumblings of health, rejoice with divine hilarity when once His voice is heard. You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matt. 10:34.)<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He must increase, but I must decrease. \u2014 John 3:30 If you become a necessity to a soul, you are out of God\u2019s order. As a worker, your great responsibility is to be a friend of the Bridegroom. When once you see a soul in sight of the claims of Jesus Christ, you know that [&hellip;]<\/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-477210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477210","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=477210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}