When asked about Grace this is how Roy Hession described it,
Grace is the undeserved favor of God, and you are no candidate for grace unless you are undeserving. You can’t be too down, too wrong, for grace. That’s where Jesus gets His glory; not in the number of good Christian He pats on the back, but in the failures He restores.
by Christian Ongtangco
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
-1 cor 10:31
Recently I’ve been interested in learning more about the ministry of healing and miracles, as it has happened in our church. A lot of people got healed and experienced the power of God. And I really admire the pastor’s humility as he kept on saying it’s the Lord that heals not us. It’s possible to all christians not just pastors/deacons/elders. The Lord heals and still does miracles for His people to see His power, know who He is and give glory back to Him. Here are some of the lessons I’ve learned from that experience.
We have a tendency to look for wonders in our experiences, and we mistake heroic actions for real heroes. It’s one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet another to go through every day glorifying (worshipping) God when there is no witness (nobody notice or give credit), non limelight , and no one paying attention even the remotest attention to us or recognizing our efforts. I’ll be really honest here. There are times this is not easy, sometimes we want to be recognized, It would make me happy to have people reading my blog or appreciate us for what we’re doing or have done.
If we are not looking for halos, we at least want something that will make people say , “what a wonderful man of prayer he is! or, “What a wonderful man of prayer he is! ” or, What a great woman of devotion she is!” If you ate properly devoted to the Lord Jesus, you have reached the lofty height where no one would ever notice you personally. All that is noticed is the power of God coming through you all the time.
We want to be able to say, ” Oh, I have had a wonderful call from God!” In reality even if I work in the church, I was a missionary or a pastor, I still have nothing to prove, boast about or have reasons to feel proud, If not for what Christ did for me. But to do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us. Like putting envelopes in the chairs, arranging the information table outside the worship hall before the service starts, praying for someone, doing a keynote/powerpoint (doing things people don’t usually notice). To be utterly unnoticeable requires God’s Spirit in us making us absolutely humanly His. Someone told me “The true test of a saint’s life is not successfulness but faithfulness on the human level of life.” More than our character or lifestyle its God’s working in our lives.
I’ve n meditating in Colossians 3:3 this morning,
“For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”
We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose is to display the glory of God in our lives, to live a life “hidden with Christ in God” in our everyday human conditional. For me that’s so powerful!
“The true test of a saint’s life is not successfulness
but faithfulness on the human level of life.”
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