I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. Luke 16:9
“Use your talents for Christ’s glory; spend and be spent for Him. Let your heart study for Christ, your hands work for Christ, and your tongue speak for Him. If Christ be our advocate in heaven, we must be factors for Him on earth: every one in His sphere must act vigorously for Christ.
Many would have Christ as their Savior, but not as their Prince; but all who will not have Jesus as their King, will not have his blood to save them. In all which Christ commands, be as the needle which points wheresoever the lodestone draws.”
Thomas Watson in Puritan Gems; or, Wise and Holy Saying of the Rev. Thomas Watson, Anglican Minister. edited and arranged by the Rev. John Adey (London: Snow and Ward, 1850) 33.
Here’s a puritan gem for sure. Spend and be spent for Christ. Use whatever you have for eternal purposes. Don’t be like the person who wants Christ to save them but not deploy them.
I am wrapping up important meetings in Australia this week. I appreciate your prayers. Then home for a few days sand off to Pakistan. It does not make me weary because it’s the direction He leads.
We have a good King and the only wearisome place is not going where He leads and doing what He commands. How do you sense He might be calling you to serve in 2025?