But I Do Not Account My Life {Scripture Saturday}
12:00 AM
By Sandra Wyatt
Welcome to Scripture Saturday! Today we continue our memorization of verses found in Acts with verse 20:24…
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
“But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself”…
I absolutely love how this is said and wanted to share…
“To the natural man the external joys and sorrows of life are all, for he knows no other. But when, by union with the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit enters into a man's breast, and he begins another life, that life of Jesus within him becomes to his perception so predominant—it becomes so all-important to him—that the other gradually sinks away and away into a distant insignificance. He stands, as it were, on the margin of a river, and he rejoices to see it flowing out; he rejoices that that which separates him from the land beyond shall cease to be, because he looks for the time when he shall take his wing and fly away and be at rest; and when he contemplates all the affections and fellowships—the rest, the services, the pure, unsullied joys of that life—that which was once to him exceeding precious becomes a thing of little worth, and he can say, "None of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself.” J. Vaughan, Sermons, 1865, p. 1.
Have a blessed and precious day everyone!
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