Joni And Friends Daily Devotional 5 September 2022 | Monday Message
Joni And Friends Daily Devotional 5 September 2022
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TOPIC: A Different Commission
Often, I meet elderly saints who feel as though their usefulness in Christ’s kingdom is finished up. They see no purpose. Well, as Amy Carmichael grew older and became bedridden, she still viewed herself as a soldier on the frontlines.
She wrote, “No soldier on service is ever ‘laid aside’; he is only given another commission, sometimes just to suffer… Never, never is he shelved as of no further use to his Beloved Captain. To feel so, even for a moment, is to only exacerbate one’s weakness.”
Boy, do I agree with that, sitting here in my wheelchair. Like Amy, I may be disabled, but I have a ministry. It’s a ministry of suffering, and if I can but remain faithful to my Captain, oh, what glory I will bring him! Friend, no matter what your age or disability, you are still in commission. So, be faithful to where God has called you. Even if that is a wheelchair.
