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Your Calling

Each one should remain in the calling which he was in when God called him.
1 Corinthians 7:20

When Peter preached at Pentecost, three thousand souls came to Christ. But when Paul preached a guy nodded off, broke his neck and killed himself by falling out of a third story window. Hardly an encouraging sign! But Paul admitted that preaching was not his chief calling: ‘I came to you, timid and trembling, my message and my preaching were very plain’’ (1Corinthians 2:3-4). Yet while he might not have been the most dynamic speaker in town, God empowered him to raise the man from the dead after he fell out of the window! Listen: Each one should remain in the calling which he was in when God called him. What Paul lacked as a speaker, he more than compensated for as a writer. His pen changed the world. He was responsible for more New Testament doctrine than those who spent every waking minute with Jesus. He judged cities, straightened out fornicators, stopped incest, rebuked idolatry, and established truth. Paul did not need to preach; he wrote the inspired Word that enabled others to do it. Something so powerful was released through Paul’s writings that even when they threw him in jail he did not ask for a lawyer or a gourmet meal because he was tired of prison food. No, he asked for more paper so that he could keep writing. In fact, Paul wrote all the way to the end of his life. And because he did, souls are still being reached today! What a legacy! And all because one man devoted himself to his calling! Now for the question - are you devoting yourself to yours?

Prayer
Heavenly Father, help me to be faithful to the calling you gave me and not try and do another’s. In Jesus' Name, Amen