Thoughts on Discipleship by Dr. W. A. Dillard - HTML preview

IT’S ALL ABOUT ME! #2

Some folks believe that trusting Jesus, and becoming His disciple is a surrendering of life, and its potential to a static life of religion. Oh, how the devil delights in spreading that lie! The truth is in Christ, and in Christ life really is all about me! Think with me about this.

Why did God leave heaven and become a man? It was to fulfill the types and promises of the Old Testament, and to pay the penalty of sins on behalf of mankind. He did this for me! You see, it really is all about me!

Why did He provide an everlasting salvation for all who repent of sins, and trust Him as personal Savior, especially me? Oh, yes, it is all about me!

Why did He create the living organism known as His body, the church? He did it that I might learn of Him, grow in grace and knowledge. Yes, it is all about me! I Timothy 2:4 declares that God will have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth. That includes me!

Did He not promise His dear children new life, and a new, incorruptible body, even me? Oh, yes! It is about me!

Does He not give me the opportunity to mature in the faith once delivered to the saints? Will that not qualify me to rule and reign with Him in the age that is about to happen? Does this include me? Indeed! It is all about me!

Will He show me how an entire universe may be destroyed and return to the unseen state? Will I truly be allowed to view this? Sure enough, it is all about me!

I have the opportunity to see how creation is done. Because once resurrected I will ever be with the Lord. I will have a bird’s eye view of the creation of new heavens and a new earth! Hallelujah, it is all about me!

Who then will get to live in New Jerusalem on the new earth? It will be his disciples of every age, and that includes me! It is indeed all about me!

Who then has the joy of studying, praying, coalescing the rightly divided Word that takes one from mountaintop to mountaintop? Among others, it is me! Thank the Lord it really is about me!

Dear reader this is for you, too. I claim all these blessings for myself within the constraints of the Blessed Word of God. I hope you will, too.

FOR THOUGHT: Some folks think the idea of being a Christian is “Give, give, give!” Have you considered Christianity to be a “Get, get, get” religion, and that even giving is getting? Do you find great joy as a Christian both in giving and getting that excels things done in the flesh?