Do you have a ministry?

Do you have a ministry?  Do you have a gift?  Have you a talent?   Have you an ability?  Is there an expression and fragrance of Christ through your life?   Know this, precious one, it is not God’s eternal purpose in your life but merely an instrument by which the Father is perfecting within you His nature, His righteousness, His faithfulness, His grace, His wisdom, His power and His glory.  This present time is a practice session, a trial run, a proving ground, a small sample of the glory yet to be revealed.  We are mere apprentices of the Christ to learn the ministry of sonship.  You must not think, as do the babes in the church systems, that when you are done working here that the Master will say, “You have finished your course, I have discharged you from your responsibilities.  Go and sit on a heavenly mount and sing and dance yourselves away for ever and ever.”  Not at all!  I am only learning how to preach now; I shall be able to preach in the age and the ages to come.  You are only learning to teach now; you will be able to teach when Christ is fully revealed in His saints.