Thinking with Chris Christian Vol. 8

Thinking with Chris Christian Vol. 8

Introduction

Don’t serve God until you discover what you are born to do for Him. What you are born to do for God is controlled by what you have the grace to do. What you can do for God is what He has wired you for. No two persons are born to do the same thing for God. Peter was different from James; they were separated by their assignments. It is your endowments that determines what you can do for God and it is the duty of your second person to reveal what you have. You will know your endowments after you have revealed your second person. If you serve God without knowing who you are, and what you should use to serve Him, you will only remain confused. If you don’t discover what you have that you can use to serve God, you will keep struggling to serve Him as if grace was not given to you but God does not want us to struggle.

Service is more of a “being” and “a becoming,” than “a doing.” What Moses, Elijah and Jesus did more in service was becoming worthy to serve. A carpenter can’t stand before God, so Jesus had to become Christ first before serving because only Christ can stand before God, not Jesus. Moses did not qualify to go to Pharaoh, only a god could. So, Moses waited for eighty years until he became a god. Don’t do anything until you discover that you have the grace to do it. You cannot serve God with a grace you don’t have. You may be able to start, but you can’t continue.

In 1 Corinthians 15:10, the Bible says, “10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.”

After God had announced Moses as a god, He made him to see the grace in other people. He said to him, although you have impediment of speech, Aaron your brother is eloquent. So, God asked him to take Aaron with him to Egypt. Moses didn’t make Aaron eloquent; Aaron was born with eloquence for a purpose. When God called Moses a god in Exodus 7:1, He also called Aaron a prophet because his gift was needed. A prophet is God’s mouth piece. This means one needs a “mouth,” to become a “mouth piece.” Not everyone can become a mouth piece. In Exodus 4:15-16, God said to Moses, ‘you shall be a god to Aaron,’ but He didn’t neglect Aaron’s ability. He said Moses that “Aaron shall be a mouth piece to you.” This means, He didn’t allow Moses to neglect what Aaron had. In Exodus 31, God told Moses to use Aholiab and Bezaleel for the work of craft. In the encounter at Rephidim, in Exodus 17, Moses asked Joshua to choose men that could fight. Sometimes, we neglect people with grace to choose what we want due to vanity. But God does not function like humans. We can see this clearly in how He used Joshua to destroy Amalek (Exodus 17) and Gideon defeated the Midianites in Judges 7.

During service, you can only serve with what you have. Don’t serve until you have discovered what you have. Also, you can’t serve God the way you want; you are to serve Him the way you were born to serve Him. You might not like how I serve God, but that is the way I was born to serve Him and I only serve through my higher self. My first service is to “become”, it is not about “a doing”. As you discover yourself, you also discover your God. Your God is not different from you, therefore, know yourself so that you can know your God. Everyone has something. Allow what you have to define your job and then, make effort to develop yourself because your endowments will help you to serve well, it is your immortality. The more you reveal yourself, the better you are positioned to serve.

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