Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning. Luke 12:35
Yesterday morning and today morning the Lord spoke to me again and again this verse. Upon praying over I was reminded of my need to be such, to be watchful, faithful and ready all the time. Perhaps, these days I tend to become lethargic? Or perhaps, overburdened or overloaded. It is indeed a good time for spiritual revival again.
At the dawn of today the Lord woke me up, convicting me of my carelessness and reminded me to reconsecrate myself: my time, my energy and my whole being. I was on my knees, confessing my looseness and indiscipline in my time management, and consecrated my self again. Later, He spoke the same verse to me as He spoke yesterday, "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning."
Let your loins be girded: As slaves' loins are girded ever ready to serve his Master, day in and day out, so much the more, I, a servant of the Lord. Irrespective of time or space, rapt attention and readiness to heed the Master's command is deemed honour to the slave. So is to me, as it must be.
Time and again, a trumpet has been sounded of the nearness of the Lord's coming again. But what has been my reaction? Do I budge an inch in response to such a clarion call? The Lord be merciful to me, I am afraid I am numb. Lord, revive me. Apt indeed is the word, and timely the sounding command. "Let your loins be girded!" Amen Lord. By your grace, I gird my loins; make me ever ready. My naturally enthused ethos will never make it;I need the Lord Himself to be my life, living and person. Then and then only, will my loins indeed be girded. So Lord, let my loins be girded, by You living in and through me.
Let your lamps be burning: The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah- Proverbs 20:27. My lamp is my spirit where the Spirit of the Lord dwells- 2 Timothy 4:22. To keep my lamps burning is to be exercised in my spirit- 1 Timothy 4:7.
The slogan, "Exercise your spirit", oftentimes sound too dubious as a fictitious banner to a slothful heart. But this is the very exercise I need now and then and forever. The Lord forgive me for oftentimes turning a deaf ear to such an emergency call.
Remind me Lord, and teach me ever to exercise my spirit and live and walk according to the spirit. Make me ever ready, always watchful, faithful and ready by keeping my lamps burning and my loins girded.
Yesterday morning and today morning the Lord spoke to me again and again this verse. Upon praying over I was reminded of my need to be such, to be watchful, faithful and ready all the time. Perhaps, these days I tend to become lethargic? Or perhaps, overburdened or overloaded. It is indeed a good time for spiritual revival again.
At the dawn of today the Lord woke me up, convicting me of my carelessness and reminded me to reconsecrate myself: my time, my energy and my whole being. I was on my knees, confessing my looseness and indiscipline in my time management, and consecrated my self again. Later, He spoke the same verse to me as He spoke yesterday, "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning."
Let your loins be girded: As slaves' loins are girded ever ready to serve his Master, day in and day out, so much the more, I, a servant of the Lord. Irrespective of time or space, rapt attention and readiness to heed the Master's command is deemed honour to the slave. So is to me, as it must be.
Time and again, a trumpet has been sounded of the nearness of the Lord's coming again. But what has been my reaction? Do I budge an inch in response to such a clarion call? The Lord be merciful to me, I am afraid I am numb. Lord, revive me. Apt indeed is the word, and timely the sounding command. "Let your loins be girded!" Amen Lord. By your grace, I gird my loins; make me ever ready. My naturally enthused ethos will never make it;I need the Lord Himself to be my life, living and person. Then and then only, will my loins indeed be girded. So Lord, let my loins be girded, by You living in and through me.
Let your lamps be burning: The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah- Proverbs 20:27. My lamp is my spirit where the Spirit of the Lord dwells- 2 Timothy 4:22. To keep my lamps burning is to be exercised in my spirit- 1 Timothy 4:7.
The slogan, "Exercise your spirit", oftentimes sound too dubious as a fictitious banner to a slothful heart. But this is the very exercise I need now and then and forever. The Lord forgive me for oftentimes turning a deaf ear to such an emergency call.
Remind me Lord, and teach me ever to exercise my spirit and live and walk according to the spirit. Make me ever ready, always watchful, faithful and ready by keeping my lamps burning and my loins girded.
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