What this means to Me

What this means to Me 

by David Brenneman 

In a few weeks I will be talking about this passage and its importance to me.  But why wait?

Why is this so important to me?  It's more recently tied to the words of a song that I love to get stuck in my head. 

"What He's Done" - Passion Conferences 

"See on the hill of Calvary

My Savior bled for me
My Jesus set me free
And look at the wounds that give me life
Grace flowing from His side
No greater sacrifice

What He's done
What He's done
All the glory and the honor to the Son
My sins are forgiven
My future is Heaven
I praise God for what He's done

Sing for the freedom He has won
Even death is dead and done
His life has overcome
Speak, say the Name above all names
Over every broken place
He is risen from the grave

What He's done
What He's done
All the glory and the honor to the Son
My sins are forgiven
My future is Heaven
I praise God for what He's done

Now on a throne of majesty
The Father's will complete
He reigns in victory
Sing hallelujah to the King
He is worthy to receive
All the worship we can bring

What He's done
What He's done
All the glory and the honor to the Son
My sins are forgiven
My future is Heaven
I praise God for what He's done

What He's done
What He's done
All the glory and the honor to the Son
My sins are forgiven
My future is Heaven
I praise God for what He's done
I praise God for what He's done"

It was years ago that I came to Christ for salvation. It's been a long road filled with ups and downs. Filled with times of believing that my continued sins would never let me into Heaven to times when I indeed felt close to God. 

Satan's spent a lot on me.  Strange to say but considering all the effort he has put into my demise it's worth pointing out. On many occasions he tried to kill me. He spent decades trying to drag me down and remove my worth.

Jesus, on the other hand, has reminded me of His faithfulness over and over. He's gone through so much to get me to where I am today.  He's removed so much anger, so much fear from me.  I owe Him so much!  I owe Him my life to bring me from the pit of death and despair to where I am today. 

Jesus is my Savior. Whatever is important to Him should be important to me. 

People can think me crazy if they want.

There's a passage that, for me, goes well with this in Colossians. Ephesians 5:16 NASB "making the most of your time, because the days are evil." 

It's tempting to live for me. To pursue my own interests. After all I did it in my past.

I read of King David in his rejoicing before the Ark as it was brought to it's resting place he did so with all his might. 

We read that the Bible says that David was a man after God's own heart.  So what does it say to us about how seriously we ought to think about living out our lives. 

I cannot live for me in any good conscience when people are going to Hell at an alarming rate.  Jesus said plainly that the Harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.  He said to beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.  

Selfish choices always drew me away from God. That's probably sounding like too simple of a reason but it's a truth of my life.  I know that I can easily be entangled in self. I can easily consume my time with the things of this world. I have a curiosity to learn things. It's not boastful when it's a truth that I really do know a lot about a lot of things.  

Jesus loves me and His love lead Him to die for the likes of me.  He has shown me great and wonderful things that I never knew about before. Both in regards to me, and the Word of God. 

I firmly believe that He is coming soon. Far sooner than most realize.  It may sound far fetched but technology has caught up to the Bible.  I can see it because His Spirit has revealed it. Countries are lining up just as He wrote in Ezekiel.  

There's going to be a shout soon to claim those in the grave and who are alive in Christ Jesus. 

I want to be found by My Savior as a doer.

James 1:22-24 NASB "But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers who deceive themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was."

I honestly have done much in my life that wasn't what I know that God's wanted of me.  It's been by way of conviction that He has pulled me through many fears and issues in my life.  

I was brought up with the saying "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right the first time".  This probably has it's roots in the passage in James 4:17 NASB "So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, for him it is sin.".  

This in James links to Colossians 3:23-24. 

This passage in Colossians has been my work ethic for years.  I have also kept with the belief that I stay where I am working until God makes me unable to stay.   

I owe my life, my eternity, to my Savior Jesus Christ.  I was to die for my sins but He took them and cast them as far as the east is from the west.  Remembering them no more.  I owe Him to live as He wants of me, being ready for what He puts before me to be doing. Obedience to His Word and purpose brings about blessings that I cannot put words to. They are off the charts. Literally as the Scriptures say in Ephesians 3:20-21 NASB "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen."

When His power is at work within us there's nothing that can't happen in regards to His Will and purpose in our lives. 

To be found by Him doing what He had in mind for me to be doing is it. Jesus brings peace that the world cannot know or understand.  I have been given work to do in His Harvest. We who are believers are going to give an account of the deeds we have done in our bodies for the Kingdom.  

I do not want to be that Believer who put what I was given under a basket for no one to see or know about. 

I love my Savior only because He first loved me. He stood in my place and claimed me as His own and He IS coming soon.