2Co 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
Three days already into the new year. Yesterday I preached on the immutability of the Lord Jesus Christ. One of the many things I have found to be important in the ministry is to stay fresh. There is no secret formula, just make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the causes die out and the movements collapse, the preachers vanish too. But the man who glories in Jesus Christ never grows stale. Our Lord is perennial and he who makes his boast in Christ stays forever fresh. He shall bring forth his fruit in his season, his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper, so it says in Psalm 1.
How long it takes us to learn that the issue is simply Jesus! We read books and feel that the magic word is sure to appear on the next page, but it doesn’t. We read biography, but we cannot live on second-hand experience. We try to work up visions and ecstasies of our own, but even if we succeed the glory fades. At last we arrive where we should have started, to learn that once it was the blessing, now it is the Lord.
It is all Jesus. Why not start at center and work out instead of starting on the circumference and working in? Stand by the Hub and the spokes are yours.
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