Everywhere He Sends Us

We who are in Christ, by biblical God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in the Lord Jesus, are the called of God to his service. Even before God formed us in the wombs of our mothers God knew us and he predestined us to be conformed to the image (likeness) of his Son Jesus Christ. Even before the ages began, before he laid the foundation of the world, he chose us in him that we should be holy and blameless before him. And in God’s book were written the days that were formed for us, before one came into being.

[See: Psalm 139:13-16; Romans 8:29; 2 Timothy 1:8-9; Ephesians 1:3-4]

So God has a unique plan and purpose for all of us individually as well as he has a collective purpose for us all, too. He did not call us to salvation just so when we die we get to go to heaven and not to hell. He called us to die with him to sin and to be reborn of the Spirit of God to now walk in holiness and righteousness, in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. And he gifted us with spiritual gifts and he assigned us our body parts within the body of Christ so that we will now live to fulfill his purpose for why he made us.

So God does not save us by his grace so that we can go on living in sin and for self and for self-pleasure and not in walks of obedience to his commands. He does not save us so that we can chart our own course and decide our own future and where we will live and what we will do with our lives while we might (or not) give him some of our time in a daily quiet time of Bible reading, and/or in attending a weekly “church” service. He has a very specific plan and purpose for each one of us he wants to do in us.

Now we are not all called to be prophets like was Jeremiah, but we are all called of God to be his witnesses in taking the message of the gospel of our salvation to the people of the world, teaching them to obey our Lord’s commandments. We are to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth in preserving and in spreading to the world the truth of what the Scriptures teach us regarding the gospel of our salvation. And we are to be those who proclaim the excellencies of him who called us out of darkness into the light.

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Ephesians 5:11-14; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

But if we are going to be the Lord’s servants and witnesses who are taking the message of the gospel of our salvation to the people of the world, we need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct biblical context so that we make certain that the “gospel” we are spreading is the one that Jesus taught, and that his New Testament apostles taught, and not the diluted and altered version of the gospel that so many are spreading today in the name of Christ, and of truth, and of salvation from sin.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

And no excuses for why we cannot be who God created us to be, doing what he created us to do, as those who profess faith in the Lord Jesus. For I can attest to the fact that God can give us knowledge and talents and abilities beyond anything we would have ever imagined or even thought of. He can give us the words to speak and the lessons he wants us to communicate. We just need to be open to hearing from him and to following him wherever he leads us to doing whatever he had planned for us before we were born.

Your Servant Witness

An Original Work / March 13, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Humbly I bow, Lord, before You,
Bringing my requests to You.
May I listen; hear You speaking.
May I follow You in truth.
Gently lead me in Your service.
Guide my steps and strengthen me.
Fill me with Your love and mercy.
May I live for Thee!

Let me be Your servant witness,
Telling others of Your grace.
May I always share the gospel
With those I meet face to face.
May I show the love of Jesus,
Caring for the needs of men;
Be Your servant witness always
For my Lord, Amen!

My desire to be like Jesus,
Living for Him ev’ry day.
May I obey all His teachings
Given me, so I’ll not stray.
Love You, Jesus, Lord, my master.
You are the King of my heart;
Follow You where’er You lead me;
Not from You depart!


Everywhere He Sends Us
An Original Work / August 4, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love