A Slave of Jesus Christ

2005-08-21

About a month after I wrote the entry I specified in “Letting the Light In,” I wrote out a letter of sorts to God. The idea came to me from a book called The Purpose Drive Life (p. 84). The author had mentioned that a certain Christian leader had written a contract with God that said the following: From this day forward, I am a slave of Jesus Christ. I decided to make a similar proclamation that I signed and dated:

Today I begin the journey of the heart.
Today I choose to enter into the unknown
Where the presence of the Wild God is.
This is the beginning of the adventure:
From this day forward, I am a slave of Jesus Christ.

This particular proclamation was the beginning of a new epoch. I have been taking the opportunity to finally heed God’s voice and allow Him to change me. There is a need of being honest with myself and letting go of the idolatries that I have allowed to grip me. These idolatries are appearing as the subtlest serpent that haunts us all in our most terrifying dreams and visions. But regardless of my fright, a comfort and reality emerges from the chaos: that I was somehow worth being created by God and I was somehow loved enough for Christ to go to Calvary. Herein lies my true worth. The Lord Jesus loves me as His new creation. And the very same is true of all people everywhere. This applies to you, whoever is reading this: You were worth being created by God, and God said you were worth dying for. Taking the form of a servant, the Lord Jesus suffered and died for you, and He arose from the dead, and now is waiting for you to come to Him. He has been waiting a very long time for us. Now is the time to approach Him, for time will not be ours forever.

As for me, I had to finally say ‘enough is enough’: After being a Christian for many years, I found myself still living between the kingdom of heaven and mediocrity. This gray-area between discipleship and spiritual divorce is not even a gray-area; it is compromise. We are either for Him or against Him, and we need to make the choice. One’s citizenship is either in heaven or it is with another land: there is no such thing as a dual citizenship. I am no longer the athlete, the claims worker, or whatever else I had chosen to call myself at one time or another; I am a slave of Jesus Christ.

Reference

Warren, Rick. The Purpose-Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For? Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002.