November 1st — YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN
November 1st.YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN
"Know ye not that . . ye are not your own?" 1 Corinthians 6:19
There is no such things as a private life - "a world within the world" - for a man or woman who is brought into fel owship with Jesus Christ's sufferings. God breaks up the private life of His saints, and makes it a thoroughfare for the world on the one hand and for Himself on the other. No human being can stand that unless he is identified with Jesus Christ. We are not sanctified for ourselves, we are cal ed into the fel owship of the Gospel, and things happen which have nothing to do with us, God is getting us into fel owship with Himself. Let Him have His way, if you do not, instead of being of the slightest use to God in His Redemptive work in the world, you wil be a hindrance and a clog.
The first thing God does with us is to get us based on rugged Reality until we do not care what becomes of us individual y as long as He gets His way for the purpose of His Redemption. Why shouldn't we go through heartbreaks? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fel owship with His Son.
Most of us fal and col apse at the first grip of pain; we sit down on the threshold of God's purpose and die away of self-pity, and al so cal ed Christian sympathy wil aid us to our death bed. But God wil not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, and says - "Enter into fel owship with Me; arise and shine." If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.