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Discipleship Focus: Calling
- Calling asks whether or not God has called the person to the particular work at this point in their life.
I’m going to go a bit outside of the tradition perspective on
calling today. Normally we talk about
calling with respect to a particular task or work. But today I want to talk about calling with
respect to grace in general. Before we
can ever get to what God is calling me to do, I really need to understand that
God is calling me to Him in the first place.
This is such an important point to remember. Yes, God calls us to do certain things in our
life. But God’s ultimate calling is to
approach Him. God’s ultimate calling is
to have us get our identity in Him. God’s
ultimate calling is for us to take a position where we submit to Him as king,
thus giving up our own personal agendas.
God calls us out of our sinfulness. The only reason we can be righteous at all is
because He calls us to be righteous and paved the way for us to be righteous
with the blood of His own Son. The only
reason we can be righteous is because He has called us to receive His
Spirit. Everything we do for God and in
God’s name starts here. It all starts
with the call of God beckoning us to be righteous.
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