{"id":483619,"date":"2025-04-24T01:48:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=483619"},"modified":"2025-04-24T01:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:18:54","slug":"the-warning-against-wantoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/the-warning-against-wantoning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Warning Against Wantoning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9b672f2b358cd930adc22fa36affbe63 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you. \u2014 Luke 10:20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Christian workers, worldliness is not our snare, sin is not our snare, but spiritual wantoning is, viz.: taking the pattern and print of the religious age we live in, making eyes at spiritual success. Never court anything other than the approval of God, go \u201cwithout the camp, bearing His reproach.\u201d Jesus told the disciples not to rejoice in successful service, and yet this seems to be the one thing in which most of us do rejoice. We have the commercial view \u2014 so many souls saved and sanctified, thank God, now it is all right. Our work begins where God\u2019s grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God\u2019s sovereign grace; our work as His disciples is to disciple lives until they are wholly yielded to God. One life wholly devoted to God is of more value to God than one hundred lives simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and that will be God\u2019s witness to us as workers. God brings us to a standard of life by His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that standard in others.<br>Unless the worker lives a life hidden with Christ in God, he is apt to become an irritating dictator instead of an indwelling disciple. Many of us are dictators, we dictate to people and to meetings. Jesus never dictates to us in that way. Whenever Our Lord talked about discipleship, He always prefaced it with an \u201cIF,\u201d never with an emphatic assertion \u2014 \u201cYou must.\u201d Discipleship carries an option with it.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you. \u2014 Luke 10:20 As Christian workers, worldliness is not our snare, sin is not our snare, but spiritual wantoning is, viz.: taking the pattern and print of the religious age we live in, making eyes at spiritual success. Never court anything other than [&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-483619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483619","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=483619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}