Spending Yourself
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What are you investing your life in? How are you spending your time and resources? Are you spending yourself for the sake of others and the good news of Jesus?
As followers of Jesus, we are called to serve and to give of ourselves for the sake of others. We are to know Jesus, to serve Jesus, and to make Jesus know to others.
The Apostle Paul wrote the church in Corinth from a place of his love for them and out of his desire to visit them and to see their souls saved.
Paul wrote, “Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?” (2 Corinthians 12:14-15, ESV).
Paul longed to see the Corinthians. Paul wanted to alleviate the burdens of the Corinthian church. Paul was willing to be poured out for the Corinthians and to spend himself and to be spent for their souls. Paul knew that he lost nothing to love the church in Corinth.
We also lose no love when we pour out our love for others. When we spend ourselves for the sake of the souls of others, they come to know the love of Jesus and encounter God. When we spend and are spent for the sake of Jesus, we lose nothing of the love of God for ourselves.
Like Paul, may we spend and be spent for the sake of sharing the good news and love of Jesus with others.
A Prayer for a Spirit of Evangelism: “Almighty God our Savior, you desire that none should perish, and you have taught us through your Son that there is great joy in heaven over every sinner who repents: Grant that our hearts may ache for a lost and broken world. May your Holy Spirit work through our words, deeds, and prayers, that the lost may be found and the dead made alive, and that all your redeemed may rejoice around your throne; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (#20., Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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