Luke 12: 10-11 So you can anticipate that you will be put on trial before the synagogues and religious officials. Don’t worry how you’ll respond, and don’t worry what you should say. 12 The Holy Spirit will give you the words to say at the moment when you need them.
Is it possible that the Lord gives us a thought before we ever need it? I think so. Maybe it is just an interest. Maybe it is a passing idae. Maybe you are like, “Oh, that is profound,” and then forget about it until the time it is needed. Maybe it is a dream which serves as a warning or a message. Maybe there are experiences which you have lived that will help you in an important situation.
When I have read Luke 12: 10-11 in the past, I never thought about this….Maybe the words are sometimes already there, written on our hearts for future use, and the Lord simply reminds us. 2 Corinthians 3: 1-6 reads….
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Further, how we live our lives is a written recommendation to be read by all. Remember the post about you will know a tree by its fruits? Yep. Same deal.
Our sufficiency is not in our own strength. Our sufficiency is in God.
As a final thought, this song came to me as I was driving yesterday. In this song which is arranged and sung by Jeremy Camp(2006), he pulls lyrics from slaves and African American churches of the 1800s. I was sitting at the funeral of a good friend several years ago. We had been friends and roommates at a collegiate ministry. He was always full of life. I normally don’t go to funerals. But I drove three hours to his, flipped it, and drove back home through the night. This song was played there. I played it all the way home.
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
Just give me Jesus
May we live our lives in such a way that they are open invitations and letters of commendation to God Most High.
May our service to Him make others take notice and give glory to only Him.
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