Ep 203 (3/23/2021): Tozer Devotional Breakdown - How Much I Could Have Done (don’t be manipulated)

A. W. Tozer on Christian Leadership, March 23 Devotion:

Title: How Much I Could Have Done

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:5 - and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves especially to the Lord, then to us by God’s will.

Devotion: Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will be judged not by how much I have done but by how much I could have done. In God’s sight my giving is measured not by how much I have given but by how much I could have given and how much I had left after I made my gift. The needs of the world and my total ability to minister to those needs decide the worth of my service.

Not by its size is my gift judged, but by how much of me there is in it. No man gives at all until he has given all. No man gives anything acceptable to God until he has first given himself in love and sacrifice...

In the work at the church the amount one man must do to accomplish a given task is determined by how much or how little the rest of the company is willing to do. It is a rare church whose members all put their shoulder to the wheel. The typical church is composed of the few whose shoulders are bruised by their faithful laborers in the many who are unwilling to raise a blister in the service of God in their fellowmen. There may be a bit of wry humor in all of this, but it is quite certain that there will be no laughter when each of us gives account to God of the deeds done in the body.

Prayer: Help me to give of myself completely today, Lord. I hold nothing back, even if at the end of the day I’m the only one with a bruised shoulder. In Jesus name I pray. Amen!