You're Not That Important

    

Churches and religious leaders like to flatter human flesh and make proud sinners, men and women whose hearts are full of hatred to God (Rom. 8:7), feel important. One example of this flattery is the following cliche that often appears on church signs and in bulletins and religious papers. "`U' are important! We can't spell...

Church without `U'.

 

                  Sunday without `U'.

                  Budget without `U'.

                  Success without `U'.

      We need `U'!"

 

     I don't know anything about budgets or success; but I suspect you would not be nearly so important were it not for the budgets and ambitions of men for success. This I do know - GOD SPELLED CHURCH FOR 2000 YEARS WITHOUT YOU; AND A WHOLE LOT OF SUNDAYS HAVE BEEN SPELLED WITHOUT YOU! The cause of God, (his work, his will, his glory, his church), does not depend on you. You're not that important. Neither am I. What kind of god depends on puny men? The fact is, you are nothing! You have nothing God needs. You can do nothing God will accept. If you come to nothing, nothing will be lost.

     God's preacher's do not flatter human flesh. They expose it! God will never allow the flesh to glory in his presence (I Cor. 1:26-31). When God makes himself known to sinners in Christ he causes them to glory in his blood, his righteousness, and his grace (Phil. 3:3). Only when you are nothing will Christ be everything to you.

 

 

Don Fortner