The Call on Our Lives
We each carry a unique call on our lives, that the God Himself has designed for us. Every facett of what it will be, has been orchestrated specifically for us. It is unique and new and completely beyond our natural ability to fulfill. God has called us to do something we in our own strength cannot possibly accomplish. We can meditate on our call for the rest of our lives, come up with a detailed plan for every aspect of it, even try to grab a hold of it, it won't matter. It is like reaching for the stars, God's call is beyond our reach. It is a specific gift He has for each of us, and our inability to carry it out ourselves, is exactly why He has selected us to carry that call.
In a world full of goals and measures of success, we find this difficult to understand and accept. Paul understood it completely:
"God has chosen the foolish things of this world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty," 1 Cor 1:27
We are the "foolish" and the "weak" for we cannot think our way into fulfilling our calling. Fortunately for us, He has not asked us to. God has that covered.
"His most foolish moment is greater than our wisest and grandest revelation." Graham Cooke
Paul explained that also: "Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can't begin to compete with God's 'weakness'" 1 Cor 1:25 Message
When we come to the point of realization that we cannot grab a hold of our call ourselves, what do we do? We must learn to live in the consistent nature of God. He never changes. The way He feels about us will never change. No matter how successful we are, and no matter how many mistakes we make. No matter how many decisions we try to make in our own strength, He is unchanging. He loves us as much today, as yesterday, and everyday of our future. He only wants to love us and in that place of consistency we get to walk with God in the unimaginable and outrageous. Our lives become an adventure everyday. Full of the miraculous! In Scripture we see the saints who walked in consistency got to walk on water, see an axe head float, witness the sun standing still in the heavens, and raise a child from the dead. They were pushed by God to a place where everything around them obeyed them. Not because of how much they tried to obtain their call. Not because of how good their strategy was for their life. But because of the consistent nature of God working through them.
This world is longing for that to be happening now. What are we waiting for? They, the lost, are waiting for a different Christian to come forward from the "church." It is not just sitting in a comfortable building on Sunday mornings that we will reach them. It is on the streets, in the work place, in the tribes of the unseen.
"For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God," Romans 8:19
We must stop striving in our own strengths, and learn to be at His feet, allowing Him to work through us. It is He that makes the miraculous possible, not the person running around strategizing and making things happen. And even though it is amazing to be witness to the miraculous, we must never take our eyes off the fact the One that makes it possible. We are to enjoy what He does through us, but adore He that made it possible.
So let us stop listening to the things that would keep us from our callings. We are right when we think we in our own strength can't accomplish our call. But in acknowledging that, we must not allow that to keep us in a place of inactivity. We must embrace it and realize that Our Creator is the One who will do the work through us. We must embrace the glory and consistency of God, to become more like Him. Only then will the world see the fullness of God. Only then will our lives reflect the greatness of the One who created us. Only then will the world see what it so longs for.
In a world full of goals and measures of success, we find this difficult to understand and accept. Paul understood it completely:
"God has chosen the foolish things of this world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty," 1 Cor 1:27
We are the "foolish" and the "weak" for we cannot think our way into fulfilling our calling. Fortunately for us, He has not asked us to. God has that covered.
"His most foolish moment is greater than our wisest and grandest revelation." Graham Cooke
Paul explained that also: "Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can't begin to compete with God's 'weakness'" 1 Cor 1:25 Message
When we come to the point of realization that we cannot grab a hold of our call ourselves, what do we do? We must learn to live in the consistent nature of God. He never changes. The way He feels about us will never change. No matter how successful we are, and no matter how many mistakes we make. No matter how many decisions we try to make in our own strength, He is unchanging. He loves us as much today, as yesterday, and everyday of our future. He only wants to love us and in that place of consistency we get to walk with God in the unimaginable and outrageous. Our lives become an adventure everyday. Full of the miraculous! In Scripture we see the saints who walked in consistency got to walk on water, see an axe head float, witness the sun standing still in the heavens, and raise a child from the dead. They were pushed by God to a place where everything around them obeyed them. Not because of how much they tried to obtain their call. Not because of how good their strategy was for their life. But because of the consistent nature of God working through them.
This world is longing for that to be happening now. What are we waiting for? They, the lost, are waiting for a different Christian to come forward from the "church." It is not just sitting in a comfortable building on Sunday mornings that we will reach them. It is on the streets, in the work place, in the tribes of the unseen.
"For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God," Romans 8:19
We must stop striving in our own strengths, and learn to be at His feet, allowing Him to work through us. It is He that makes the miraculous possible, not the person running around strategizing and making things happen. And even though it is amazing to be witness to the miraculous, we must never take our eyes off the fact the One that makes it possible. We are to enjoy what He does through us, but adore He that made it possible.
So let us stop listening to the things that would keep us from our callings. We are right when we think we in our own strength can't accomplish our call. But in acknowledging that, we must not allow that to keep us in a place of inactivity. We must embrace it and realize that Our Creator is the One who will do the work through us. We must embrace the glory and consistency of God, to become more like Him. Only then will the world see the fullness of God. Only then will our lives reflect the greatness of the One who created us. Only then will the world see what it so longs for.
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