Saint?

6/13/2020

Mark 1:17 “Come ye after me.”

I find Chamber’s statements about the life of a saint fascinating. He says, “In the life of a saint there is an amazing wellspring of original life all the time; the Spirit of God is a well of water springing up, perennially fresh. The saint realizes that it is God Who engineers circumstances, consequently there is no whine, but a reckless abandon to Jesus.”

I was raised to believe that Saints are only those few people who were canonized by the Catholic Church. Evangelicals teach that anyone who has yielded to the call of Christ is a Saint. What interests me about Chambers’ words is that most of the people who have been sainted had a reckless abandon for Jesus. They are always powerhouses of faith and people of great humility. Most did not care for what this world had to offer them, but only wanted to follow Jesus. They had servant’s hearts with deep and abiding devotions to God. They truly lived these words of Chambers. Their overflowing was from the Source.

Now I think of all who have yielded their lives to Jesus, and call themselves Christians; in this I include myself. Do I live truly believing that God engineers circumstances no matter what? Do I believe that the way to be strong in every way is to be connected so deeply to the Source that I am unshakable? Am I recklessly abandoned to Jesus? If I actually were, instead of operating in my own selfish ways, what would those around me experience? What would happen if every living saint turned to the Source fully and completely? Just think about how transformative it would be for this hurting world.