Wasted

I thought these are some quite profound words penned from the confines of a Chinese prison by Watchman Nee:

Oh, to be wasted! It is a blessed thing to be wasted for the Lord. So many who have been prominent in the Christian world know nothing of this. Many of us have been used to the full—have been used, I would say, too much—but we do not know what it means to be wasted on God. We like to be always ‘on the go’: the Lord would sometimes prefer to have us in prison. We think in terms of apostolic journeys: God dares to put his greatest ambassadors in chains.

“But thanks be unto God, which always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savour of his knowledge in every place” (2 Cor. 2:14).

“And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment (John 12:3).
The Lord grant us grace that we may learn how to please Him. When, like Paul, we make this our supreme aim (2 Cor. 5:9), the Gospel will have achieved its end.

(The Normal Christian Life)
All that I wish to aspire to in service to the Lord is still subserviant to all that God will ultimately assignment to do as his humble servant.

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