Always, Give Yourself Fully!!

by Paul Dawn
Published October 4, 2005

For over a week I have been reading I Corinthians 15:58 , over and over. The more I read it, the hungrier I become for the the Word of the Lord. A desire to serve Him more fully with the remaining time that is allotted me.

We are to give ourselves fully to the work of the Lord. To use the gifts and talents that He has given us to to touch others.

Janice Elsheimer in “The Creative Call“, page 3, says “Our gifts are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world” and on page 5 she says “The Creative Call offers Christians a point of view and an approach that is consistant with Christs teaching. Instead of hoping that finding ourselves will result in practicing our art again, we need to realize that only through losing ourselves and becoming reliant on God can we discover how to use those gifts the way He wants us to use them.”

“We will find the artist God intends us to be when we empty ourselves of self and become open to His plan and inspiration of His Holy Spirit. Only then will we experence personal artist revival.”

I had the privilege on September 24th to attend a one day writers conference with the Christian Authors Guild and Janice taught the sessions that I attended and she was a source of inspiration and she illustrated well, The Creative Call, what it means and that in turn brought a sense of hope and excitement to me!

Which brings me to this verse: “Always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” I Corinthians 15:58.

What it has been speaking to me, is that we can give ourselves fully, without reservation to the Lord, to be passionate in the gifts and talents He has put within us in order to use us as His living epistles. Walking and living in the reality of His word, of coming into an experimental relationship with our Father, the Master Artist.

He is portraying Himself through us as we give ourselves fully to the work of the Lord, knowing that our labor, that all that we do in the Lord is not in vain. That which He has begun in us, He will fully finish as we give ourselves fully to His creative call in our lives!

Let us respond to the touch of the Holy Spirit as He develops in us the gifts He has given us. That we will be the best in what we are called to.

Don’t you feel an unquenchable fire within? Our Father is wooing us and drawing out of us those seeds that He planted within us, that His Creative Call will bring forth that which He has called us to be!

Till Later,
Paul

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