Year 5, Day 141: Galatians 5 & 6

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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.

Galatians 5 & 6 are largely about calling, which makes sense since the prior chapters were primarily about character and having an internal perspective that lines up with God.  Once the internal life is established, we can then turn to calling.  Once we know what God wants us to be and we are resolved to be obedient, then we are prepared to live it out.  This is our calling.

So what does Paul say that God is calling us to become?  We are to embody the nature of God to the people around us.  We are to be people who model: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.  We are to carry one another’s’ burdens.  We are to restore people who have fallen away from God.  We are to do good at every opportunity.

This is our calling.  This is why we are crucified in Christ.  This is why we are to be a people of grace and not a people dependent upon blind obedience to the Law.  God calls us to be representatives of His character.

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