MY LIFE'S SPIRITUAL HONOR AND DUTY - By Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) in "My Utmost For His Highest"

My Life's Spiritual Honor and Duty:  Oswald Chambers

"I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise." (Romans 1:14)

Paul was overwhelmed with the sense of his indebtedness to Jesus Christ, and he spent his life to express it.  The greatest inspiration in Paul's life was his view of Jesus Christ as his spiritual creditor.  Do I feel that same sense of indebtedness to Christ regarding every unsaved soul?  As a saint, mmy life's spiritual honor and duty is to fulfill my debt to Christ in relation to those lost souls.  Every tiny bit of my life that has value I owe to the redemption of Jesus Christ.  Am I doing anything to enable Him to bring His redemption into evident reality in the lives of others?  I will only be ableto do this as the Spirit of God works into me this sense of indebtedness.

I am not a superior person among other people --- I am a bondservant of the Lord Jesus.  Paul said, ". . . you are not your own . . . you were brought at a price . . ." (First Corinthians 6:19-20).  Paul sold himself to Jesus Christ and he said, in effect, "I am a debtor to everyone on the face of the earth because of the gospel of Jesus; I am free only that I may be an absolute bondservant of His."  That is the characteristic of a Christian's life once this level of spiritual honor and duty becomes real.  Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus.  That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.