My Journey 8/6/2010

God's insight to me:

Now here is a good evangelistic devotional. So many good sentences that touched my heart. This devotional speaks volumes of those that truly love the Lord. I believe many people go through life thinking of themselves as "inconspicuous", but not in God's eyes. I can not understand how if someone is doing the Lord's work that they can think of their lives as "mediocrity and insipidity". Now here is the icing on the cake as they say, "We are doing more good than we know, sowing seeds, starting streamlets, giving men true thoughts of Christ, to which they will refer one day as the first things that started them thinking of Him". As I go into nursing homes and senior residences I understand what I do is plant a seed. A sower for Christ. See I understand before you can have fruit, you must plant a seed. Before someone would want to come to Christ, they would want to see and hear from someone that has. This last sentence by George Matheson is what my life is about now, "He was a good man; he wrought no miracles, but he spake words about Christ, which led me to know Him for myself."

In the Shadows of Life

I stood in the shadows of life,
unnoticed to those passing by.
Just a plain, quiet person,
content to live and not question “why”?

I did what people asked me to,
never thinking of fortune or fame.
Content being in the shadows
is what my life became.

Then one day I heard of Christ,
from a person just like me,
they were always quiet too,
but Jesus just wouldn’t let them be.

See, once you learn of Jesus,
and accept Him into your heart,
He brings you out from the shadows,
into His light, where you’ll never to be apart!

E. P. Shagott
8/6/2010

From God's heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott
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8/6

Hidden Workers
from Streams in the Desert devotional

"John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true" (John 10:41).

You may be very discontented with yourself. You are no genius, have no brilliant gifts, and are inconspicuous for any special faculty. Mediocrity is the law of your existence. Your days are remarkable for nothing but sameness and insipidity. Yet you may live a great life.

John did no miracle, but Jesus said that among those born of women there had not appeared a greater than he.

John's main business was to bear witness to the Light, and this may be yours and mine. John was content to be only a voice, if men would think of Christ.

Be willing to be only a voice, heard but not seen; a mirror whose surface is lost to view, because it reflects the dazzling glory of the sun; a breeze that springs up just before daylight, and says, "The dawn! the dawn!" and then dies away.

Do the commonest and smallest things as beneath His eye. If you must live with uncongenial people, set to their conquest by love. If you have made a great mistake in your life, do not let it becloud all of it; but, locking the secret in your breast, compel it to yield strength and sweetness.

We are doing more good than we know, sowing seeds, starting streamlets, giving men true thoughts of Christ, to which they will refer one day as the first things that started them thinking of Him; and, of my part, I shall be satisfied if no great mausoleum is raised over my grave, but that simple souls shall gather there when I am gone, and say,

"He was a good man; he wrought no miracles, but he spake words about Christ, which led me to know Him for myself." --George Matheson