Year 6, Day 26: Isaiah 42

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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.

Isaiah 42 gives us a great opportunity to feel the challenge of calling.  In this chapter, we hear God calling to the Hebrew people.  But let’s be careful and make sure that we understand the calling.  God called them to be His chosen people.  What does that entail?  Does it entail them being more privileged and ruling over the world?  Does it entail them living a life of ease and luxury?  Of course not!

God called them to be His offering into the world.  They were called to receive the Law and live it out in their lives.  They were called to show the world that living according to God’s ways was better than living according to our selfish desires.  He called them to open the eyes of the world.  That was their calling!

They rebelled.  God called His own people blind and deaf.  They didn’t receive the calling as He hoped they would.  They didn’t live out their relationship with Him as He called them to do.

Of course, this is a great opportunity for us to ask the same question.  Am I living out God’s calling in my life?  If people were to see into my life, would they see a life lived according to God’s rule?  Would they be drawn in to see how a life set upon God’s ways is better than a life lived in selfish pursuit?

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