Chapter 1 A Consecrated Life - Far Eastern Bible College

opportunities within their grasp. Something is bound to give way. Very
soon they will face a conflict of interests.
Dear reader, please be careful not to live like that. Be singleminded.
Let your loyalties be focussed on just one main pursuit in life.
Be like the Apostle Paul who said:
. . . this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are
behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus (Phil 3:13–14).
Paul was a “one-thing person.” King David was also a “one-thing”
person, because he wrote in Psalm 27:4,
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that
I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to
behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
Decide that from this day onward you will subordinate all things in
your life to just one thing you want to accomplish: following Christ.
Remember what Jesus said in Luke 9:23, “If any man will come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”
Once again, a person may say, “This is too
hard for me to do. How can you ask me to give
up so many other things in life that I want to
pursue as well?” And once again the answer is
the same: love the Lord with all your heart, with
all your soul and all your mind. If you love Him
fully, everything else will fade
away in importance. You will
then make Him your one and
only, single-minded pursuit in
life.
If God has spoken to your
heart today, don’t just think
about it. Act upon it. Be bold to take the right steps
now. Respond to these things by seeking to do God’s
will rather than your own will. There is just one more thing
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