It is Week 5 of the Good Morning Girls Bible Study of Ephesians. This week, the verses were Ephesians 3:1-13. Here’s the Wednesday Share email I sent my GMG group today:
I had to kind of read them all together to get the full effect this week. The GMG post for today talked about Paul’s passion. I think that it is evident in these verses that he is passionate about helping the Gentiles understand the “mystery” of the gospel. I was reading about Charles Spurgeon’s life yesterday. Talk about passion. Read this excerpt.:
In that day when I surrendered myself to my Saviour, I gave Him my body, my soul, my spirit; I gave him all I had, and all I shall have for time and eternity. I gave him all my talents, my powers, my faculties, my eyes, my ears, my limbs, my emotions, my judgement, my whole manhood, and all that came of it, whatever fresh capacity or new capability I might be endowed with.
The very first service which my youthful heart rendered to Christ was the placing of tracts in envelopes, and then sealing them up, that I might send them. . . . I might have done nothing for Christ if I had not been encouraged by finding myself able to do a little. Then I sought to do something more, and from that something more, and I do not doubt that many servants of God have been led on to higher and nobler labours for their Lord, because they began to serve Him in the right spirit and manner. . . . I used to write texts on little scraps of paper, and drop them anywhere, that some poor creatures might pick them up, and receive them as messages of mercy to their souls. I could scarcely content myself even for five minutes without trying to do something for Christ. If I walked along the street, I must have a few tracts with me; if I went into a railway carriage, I must drop a tract out of the window[!]; if I had a moment’s leisure, I must be upon my knees or at my Bible; if I were in company, I must turn the subject of conversation to Christ, that I might serve my Master. It may be that, in the young dawn of my Christian life, I did imprudent things in order to serve the cause of Christ, but I Still say, give me back that time again, with all its imprudence and with all its hastiness, if I may but have the same love to my Master, the same overwhelming influence in my spirit, making me obey my Lord’s commands because it was a pleasure to me to do anything to serve my God.
http://www.spurgeon.org/heathbio.htm
Paul and even Spurgeon’s passion make me think…what am I doing for Christ? Am I passionate about reaching people and sharing with them the mystery of the gospel? It’s not too late to start.
Here’s the link to the GMG post for today: