Some of you may think I have an obsession
of some sort with gentle brother Paul but hehehehe it’s far from that. I do
though, admire the man. It takes a thick skin to permit God to use you. Yes I
said permit. Many are called, for many ministries but intentionally sit on top
of what God is leading them to do for all sorts of reasons. In a nutshell, we
have refused God permission to use us, unlike Paul for instance. One of the
many things I have learnt recently is that being called is really not some
scary theory; it is God leading you to what you love and are most passionate
about and using that to bless others and serve him with. Musicians, actors and
actresses understood this way before us “ordinary” people. Doctors for
instance, these folks do such a great job at displaying the power of God. Ok I
know they are a sensitive breed to discuss in accordance to the will of God but
my opinion on them is this: they are showing us the intelligence of God.
Simply. Back to my point on being called, comedians are people I totally love;
I hope and pray one of my children is called to display the gospel through jokes.
Lord knows I love laughing, and I’ve been told my laugh is sometimes cute and
at other times annoying lol. Being CALLED by God is not some complex concept,
it’s simply allowing him to lead you to your passion and surrender to being
used by him through that.
Paul says something that gives you and I a
lot to ride on concerning our callings. Reading this passage will not only make
us realize more of the will of God, but through Paul’s prayer, you and I learn
more. I found myself smiling when I finally became convinced of the intensity
that God wishes for me to have in loving him. God wants you and I to become
aware and clear on the power our life possesses through his precious son Jesus
Christ. So God being God spoke truck
loads here to us about his final plan for our callings. When God calls and
equips us, he does so in order that we may become agents of who he really is.
God is love. Much of what he is accomplishing in our lives involves him
showing, clarifying and proving his love, first in ourselves, then to others
and ultimately to become so rooted in love that in our calling, that’s all
everyone can account to. How awesome will it be when one day you are described
as that engineer that is so passionate about his or her job, the call of God
through his or her career displays an array of love, for the job, the people
and God himself.
God is amazing folks. He does not deserve
to be in competition with anything in the world. Not even our callings should
compete with him. He alone is God. We must be careful when we analyze what God
is doing, where he is leading us and how is he calling us to serve him, that in
all we discover and explore, none of it becomes a mini god. See, it maybe to be
on the pulpit, or through books, music, medicine, education, psychology, arts,
food and so forth. In any of those, our role is to let God be the only
God. God is the source (our ultimate
provider). He is the well we draw all we need from.
Ok, here is what Paul prayed for the
Ephesian crowd that inspired this post:
Ephesians 3: 14- 19
“For this reason I
kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth
derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you
with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in
your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in
love, may have power, together
with all saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of
Christ, and to know that this love that surpasses knowledge-that may be filled
to the measure of all the fullness of God. “
I think if you go through it with the AMP
version you will just draw so much more than love, calling, power, faith and
provision.
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