KNOW YOUR CALLING

MEMORISE:

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit.
1st Corinthians 12:4
READ: 1Corinthians 12:4-7

4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.

5 And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.

6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the
same God which worketh all in all.

7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.

MESSAGE:
Being called is an important issue which usually
beings up endless discussions amongst Children of
God. Meanwhile,
we are advised to give due diligence to make our
calling and election sure. The knowledge of our
calling is not as important as what we are doing
about it. How are you justifying Heaven’s confidence
in you? Each time you stray from God’s path, purpose
and will, you make the Heavenly host regret their
choice. That you were chosen suggests you are
special. You were chosen to be precious (1st Peter
2:4). Those who are chosen are called into divine
friendship with God (Isaiah 41:8). The chosen is
allowed to draw nearer to God. Haven been chosen,
how close are you to God? Heaven defends the
chosen to any extent. God turns impossibility into
possibility and makes miracles common place in the
life of the chosen.

The important thing is to recognize
Heaven’s calling on your life; we are called to be to
the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:12 says;
“That we should be to the praise of his glory, who
first trusted in Christ.”
Gifts may differ just as the sun and the moon have
their different spheres of influence. Unlike the moon,
the light of the sun influences those under it to stay
awake and work. It gives life, while the light of the
moon-which is a reflection – influences those under it
to close shop and rest. From Genesis 1:26-28, we
understand that man was created for a purpose – to
dominate everything God had made including the
sun, moon and stars. You were created for a purpose,
even if you were conceived by mistake, you are not
an accident. Were you a product of rape? Even then,
you have to fulfil God’s purpose on earth.

God needed a particular man and a specific woman to
come together in order to have you. If your father
just impregnated your mother and disappeared, it
could just be that he had finished his assignment.
Before you were created, God knew you and He
knows your worth to Him even when people think
you are of no value because you lack education,
money, skills or intellect.
God knows you and has ordained you for a purpose
from your mother’s womb even without her
knowledge or consent (Jeremiah 1:4-5). Physical
ordination is only an outward manifestation of what
God had already done before your birth. You were
born for a great purpose (Jeremiah 29:11) and
chosen by God before the foundations of the earth
(Ephesians 1:3-5). You were chosen to be holy,
blameless and in love. Anytime you dabble into sin,
you contradict the purpose for which you were
created.

Is your life blameless like Daniel’s? If you
find it difficult to do something perfectly, or people
always find fault with your work, it could be that the
spirit of error is operating in your life. Each time you
fail to walk in love towards those who offend you, you
contradict God’s purpose for calling you. As seen in
our Bible reading for today, you were created to
glorify God. Is your life praising God today? Are you
fulfilling God’s purpose for creating you?

ACTION POINT:
List those things you do that are against God’s
original purpose for your life. Determine to make
appropriate corrections henceforth.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR :
2 Kings 13:1-15:16 and Proverbs 23:14-28

HYMN : MY HOPE IS BUILD ON NOTHING LESS

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

Chorus:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.

2. When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

3. His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.

4. When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.