What is MY Calling
Understanding Our Own Calling
I love Jesus with all my Heart! I need Him every day!
To receive our true blessings in Heaven we need to make sure that we are doing what God has chosen us for and NOT what WE want to be. Position doesn’t matter to God!!
…”If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow Me.” – John 21:22
Jesus was talking to Peter after he had just had a very important encounter with Him-one of the last meetings the two would have.
*This was the third time Jesus had shown Himself to the disciples after His resurrection.
*It is the famous dialogue between Jesus and Peter in which Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved Him.
* Jesus followed by commanding, “Feed My sheep.”
*Jesus went on to foretell of Peter’s future death. As they were walking together, John was with Peter and Jesus.
Peter asked Jesus about John and whether he would die also.
**Jesus reacted sharply to Peter’s comment, telling him not to worry about what John’s role or purpose was in life.
* All Peter had to do was worry about fulfilling his own purpose.
As believers we tend to measure our success on whether we have achieved a certain position or stature in life.
Even as Christians the temptation to believe that someone is blessed if they have achieved prominence is always confronting us.
In His discussion with Peter, Jesus was getting at the very HEART of the matter of a person’s calling.
Peter WAS worried about whether his friend John was going to get the same lot in life as he was.
***Jesus told him it should not be his concern. He was to concern himself only with one thing: his OWN calling before God.
*Are you tempted to compare yourself with where others are in their life?
* Are you dissatisfied with where God has you right now?
*** Be of good cheer-“[be] confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Phil. 1:6)
It’s easy to get caught up in what we’re going through. During times of intense hardship, suffering, or even intense joy and satisfaction it’s hard not to get rather self-absorbed and ignore what’s going on around us.
***That’s OK, because that’s LIFE and we’re human.
***Sometimes, like Peter(John 21:21-22), we want to know what’s going to happen to someone else, especially if we think that they are the “favored one” like Peter here with the Apostle John.
But the important part of the response of Jesus to Peter was “…BUT you follow me.”
While Peter’s destiny was made known to him, and John’s was still clouded in mystery, Christ commands Peter to simply, “Follow me.”
While others may support us in prayer, financially, emotionally, and physically, there is a path WE HAVE to Walk and a CROSS that we have to bear – ourselves. Jesus promises to be there with us, because we’re following Him.
Lord, help me to stay focused on following you and not getting caught up in everyone else’s business. May I always be an example of your love and grace to those around me!
**Show me your friends and I will show you your future, and your character.
Don’t stand side by side with those who cause trouble. Don’t follow man—-at some time in life—man will fail you. They think the way they want to think. They are not going to get to go to heaven, and you do not want to follow them. ” YOU follow ME” Jesus said!
2 Corinthians 6:14
Paul tells them to stay away from sinners. How can light and dark stay together? God will walk with those in the light. (1 Jn 1:5-7 also)
One is not blessed just because they avoid walking with the wicked or sitting among mockers, but rather they are blessed because they LOVE God’s law and desire to read and meditate and know His word.
When our TRUE desire and motive becomes knowing God and delighting in His ways then the way of the wicked will never be a real temptation or want in our lives.
God, I pray that my focus will be on You first and YOU will show me where and when I need to inject my energy into others and situations and things that You want me to be involved in that will do nothing but bring You glory and honor and praise.
Lord I do love You today, but I want to love you more. I want to love you with a love that is genuuine, without pretense, with a LOVE that IS REAL!
Acts 9: 5 He said, “Who are you, Master?” “I am Jesus, the One you’re hunting down. 6 I want YOU to get up and enter the city. In the city you’ll be told what to do next.”
Saul Get UP… Failure is not final unless you don’t get up. God was knocking him off his high horse so He could take him where HE wanted him to go.
It is never in our best interest to worry about the things of this world. Our lives are constantly interrupted by God to get our attention, to draw us into a more intimate relationship with Him.
Yes… Saul was doing it all wrong, but God was ready to pick him up from his darkness into marvelous Light. His life would never be the same from this moment.
Get up today and let God’s light forever change your destiny.
The Lord is calling those of you who made a choice to follow Him and then deviated from the path through sin and distractions. Though you have declared with your mouth that you belong to the Lord, yet your heart is far from Him. Now take this opportunity to honestly evaluate your spiritual condition, repent, and return to the Lord and be re-established in a place of spiritual safety.
Zechariah 1:3 Therefore say to them, thus says the LORD of hosts: “Return to Me,” says the LORD of hosts, “and I will
return to you,” says the LORD of hosts.
Psalms 28:7 The lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.
Lord HELP me to follow you more in all my days left here on earth. Help me to listen DAILY for your will to be Done for Your Glory and my Joy!! Amen