Acts 20:24 profoundly impacted me a few years ago as I sat a crossroad wondering what direction my speaking ministry was to take, or if I was to even continue. I had a passion to share my faith, to share the love and grace, the hope and the freedom that Christ had extended to someone like me.
And my daily Bible reading that day took me to Acts 20:24... " However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me - the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace."
My name is Robin and I seem to be at a crossroad again. And yet the assignment remains firm before me. His will, His race, His testimony of His grace in my life.
As I read these Acts 20:24 words afresh I am struck by the power in them. Tonight I’ll just start with the first phrase… “I consider my life worth nothing to me…” It’s not that my life is worth nothing or that I am to consider it worthless, no, it’s the “to me” that jumps out at me.
Having grown up in such a way as to feel worthless and of little value I am awed at the worth I do have. I have value. I am precious. I am of so much value that my Beloved Heavenly Father sent His only Son to die my sin death, to pay my sin penalty, to spare me from an eternal death sentence. And He did this while I was still His enemy. He adopted me into His family and made me His daughter… a daughter of the King. Amazing.
My life has worth to God (as does yours, beloved). And God is completely trustworthy and completely able to do mighty things with my life if I just release it completely to Him. When I start to go down the road of “my rights”, “my desires”, “my ideas” and “my will”, I have lost sight of the race and the task He has given me.
So, “I consider my life worth nothing to me…”
