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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.
It’s really
easy to speak about calling in this chapter.
After all, this is where Jesus calls Peter and Andrew and James and
John. Jesus gets His first disciples in
this chapter. He is putting calling on
display for all to see. The Son of God
tells people to follow Him, and they listen!
That’s what calling is all about.
However,
there is a deeper layer of calling here – and in the rest of the book of
Matthew. Do you notice how often Matthew
points out the scriptures that Jesus fulfills in doing what He is called to
do? Jesus is fulfilling scripture left
and right in the Gospel of Matthew. Naturally,
this happens because Matthew is writing to a Jewish audience and he wants to
make it very clear that Jesus is the Messiah.
I think it
is really important to see that Jesus not only calls, but responds to
calling. He is not asking us to do
something that He is not doing as well.
He listens to the Father and responds.
He listens to God’s Word and responds.
We should go and do likewise.
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