A Noble Deed

But Jesus, knowing it, said to them, Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a noble deed to Me. (Matthew 26:10, RecVer)

Today, a graduation meeting for the full-time trainees who graduated this year was held after the Lord’s Table meeting in the National Serving Ones Training in Hyderabad. This was the first ever graduation meeting held for India. Though I had the opportunity to attend the graduation meeting in Anaheim USA and Taipei Taiwan, this was was the first for India. It was a very precious meeting as the Lord has blessed India richly with the ministry of the word and the progression of the saints in the church life are being confired through this graduation meeting. Throughout the graduation meeting I was moved to tears witnessing the manifestation of Christ through the saints who have consecrated their lives for the Lord. O what precious lives have been offered to the Lord!

There are many saints who have finished the training throughout the years since 1997 in India and I have been blessed to be one of them, a 2003-2005 batch. It surely is the mercy of the Lord that graced all these dear ones to be trained in the ministry of the word under the ministry of the age. For, without the Lord’s mercy, it is impossible to pass through such a training for two years. To have passed through this training is the Lord’s mercy and blessing. And with this beginning, not the end, the Lord would continue to grace them all to go on in the Lord until the Lord comes back that they all would be normal functioning members of the Body of Christ. 

What moved me to tears was the testimony of the trainees especially those two sisters who had the the privilege and honor of being persecuted for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ and went through imprisonment. Despite the injustice meted out to them, they stood firm in their faith and decided not to shed even a drop of tears taking the pattern of the Lord Jesus Christ and that of brother Watchman Nee who was imprisoned for twenty years and then eventually martyred. I was also moved by the testimony of a brother who consecrated his only begotten daughter to the Lord as a burnt offering and who also graduated from the training this time. This was such an encouragement to all the parents even as I now stand on the side of the parents being blessed with three children. And the testimony of a trainee and his father whom the Lord used the son to usher his whole family into the church-life. 

Witnessing all these, I wept tears of joy and thanksgiving to God for what He has done in India. These were the openly manifested ones as this was the first such meeting. Since 1997, there have been many who passed through the same training yet whose testimonies have never been shared. I believe, hundreds of trainees have similar testimony, still to be heard. Life is truly worth the living when it is lived out in Christ, through Christ, and for Christ.

To me, this is a noble deed. Mary poured out the best she had upon the Lord Jesus. Today, we also have the same opportunity to pour out our best for the Lord, our whole life itself, unto the Lord as a living sacrifice. This is a noble deed.

The Lord Jesus is worthy of the best. The best that we can offer is our very life; a life of martyrdom in living or in dying, psychologically or physically, a life of denying our natural man and taking Christ as our life and living, all for Christ and His church, a life to live an overcoming life to be raptured or martyred. This kind if life is a noble deed. 

Lord, grace me to live a life of noble deed.