January 28

Becoming His Servants
by Ray Prinzing

"And He said unto me, Thou art My servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified."   
                                                                                                               (Isaiah 49:3).

It is a lofty position to which we are called, and for which we are being prepared.  Sonship, yes, Kings and priests, yes.  But why equipped with such power and glory? TO SERVE!  For it is written, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and MY SERVANT whom I have chosen."  (Isaiah 43:10).

When we think of witnesses, we cannot refer to the old idea of a soap-box in a park where one preaches away at the passerby.  Acts 1:8, "But ye shall receive power, after that the holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto ME..."  "The Greek word for "witness" is "martus" from which we get our English word MARTYR.  A martyr is one who gives his life for the message he declares.  It requires the inducement of the holy Spirit to enable us to BE OUR MESSAGE, our whole life given to manifest that message.  A state of being that proclaims the truth regardless of whether we speak or not.

To witness to the truth is to give your life to that truth.  Even more, we read that it was to "BE witnesses UNTO ME."  Not to talk about Him, not just to build cathedrals in His honour, but to live and give our whole life UNTO HIM, so that every action, every word, all that WE ARE is a declaration unto Him, pointing to Him, exalting Him.

Furthermore, receiving the inflow of the spirit gives us the power to be able to lay down our own self-life, that HIS LIFE might be lived through us.  "God so loved the world that HE GAVE ..."  Our giving is first unto Him, and then dispersed abroad to all those who are in need of Him.  Of the same Israel that it is written,  "Ye are My servants," it is also written,  "And in thee shall all nations be blessed."  (Galatians 3:8).  Right now the greatest service that we can give to others, is to die out to all our own ego-self, that the living of HIS LIFE becomes its own declaration that it is truly the best life, to His glory and praise.