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September 30, 2004


THE COMMISSION OF THE CALL

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up
that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my
flesh for His body's sake.

Colossians 1:24
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=col+1:24&sr=1

We make calls out of our own spiritual consecration, but when we get
right with God He brushes all these aside, and rivets us with a pain
that is terrific to one thing we never dreamed of, and for one
radiant flashing moment we see what He is after, and we say - "Here
am I, send me."

This call has nothing to do with personal sanctification, but with
being made broken bread and poured-out wine. God can never make us
wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with. If God
would only use His own fingers, and make me broken bread and
poured-out wine in a special way! But when He uses someone whom we
dislike, or some set of circumstances to which we said we would never
submit, and makes those the crushers, we object. We must never choose
the scene of our own martyrdom. If ever we are going to be made into
wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes
become wine only when they have been squeezed.

I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze
you, and you have been like a marble and escaped? You are not ripe
yet, and if God had squeezed you, the wine would have been remarkably
bitter. To be a sacramental personality means that the elements of
the natural life are presenced by God as they are broken
providentially in His service. We have to be adjusted into God before
we can be broken bread in His hands. Keep right with God and let Him
do what He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of
bread and wine that will benefit His other children.