Gods Glory Thus We Shall Proclaim!

Michael E. Wood

August 13, 2012

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?  And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”  So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.  Romans 10:14-17

"'If you can stay out of the ministry, stay out.' You should only be in the ministry when you cannot stay out of it; when you can no longer refuse; when you have to give in as it were, and you stop resisting. That is the call; that is the sending. It becomes inevitable. You cannot do anything else."   Martyn Lloyd-Jones commenting on a quote by C.H.Spurgeon

Pastor Robert Briggs preached a devotional message on Wednesday, August 8, 2012, from Romans 10:14-17 which was used to cause me to investigate more thoroughly the meaning of the text.  Thus, while spending several hours in research, the following words came to mind.

Are you called by men or sent

By God’s choosing and are leant

As a gift through God’s own Son?

A gospel herald of the One,

Who in time now speaks to men

To show He is Yeah and Amen!

Discernment Christ will give to fill

The knowledge of His Father’s will

To all appointed and made plain

That it is He that doth ordain

To open up by Sovereign choice

The scriptures that men hear His voice.

The Holy Spirit shall confirm

Though we as men be but a worm;

The message which before was sealed,

The power of the cross revealed,

To know and love Him as He is

To all He has alone made His.

Stand firm then in the faith Oh men

Who know Him as He’s always been

The same today and yesterday,

Forever Light, and Life; The Way;

The Truth embodied for one aim:

God’s glory, thus we shall proclaim!