DO YOU SEE YOUR CALLING?

"Separated unto the Gospel." Romans 1:1

Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the Gospel of God. The one thing that is all important is that the Gospel of God should be realized as the abiding Reality.

Reality is not human goodness, nor holiness, nor heaven, nor hell; but Redemption; and the need to perceive this is the most vital need of the Christian worker to-day. As workers we have to get used to the revelation that Redemption is the only Reality. Personal holiness is an effect, not a cause, and if we place our faith in human goodness, in the effect of Redemption, we shall go under when the test comes.

Paul did not say he separated himself, but - "when it pleased God who separated me. . ." Paul had not a hypersensitive interest in his own character. As long as our eyes are upon our own personal whiteness we shall never get near the reality of Redemption.

Workers break down because their desire is for their own whiteness, and not for God. "Don't ask me to come into contact with the rugged reality of Redemption on behalf of the filth of human life as it is; what I want is anything God can do for me to make me more desirable in my own eyes."

To talk in that way is a sign that the reality of the Gospel of God has not begun to touch me; there is no reckless abandon to God. God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul is unconscious of himself, he is recklessly abandoned, separated by God for one purpose - to proclaim the Gospel of God (cf. Rom. 9:3.)

Oswald Chambers
My utmost for His highest
(31st Jan reading)

Get it? get it!

It has never been about us, our preoccupation with ourselves. Neither our image or how we preceived ourselves standing before God. It's all about Him. What He alone has done!

So, if the finished work of the cross is enough then whatever i've busied myself with, i cannot not worship Him. I worship Him because of the revelation of who He is and my character flows through that relationship.

can you not see that simplicity? when i know Him, i do not need to defend myself nor my characters neither my dreams nor convictions because if i know its how its suppose to be and i do it, the cost eventhough its a piercing pain would somehow passed. it does not haunt me.

when i know Him, my attitude and care for others is not something i forced out of me but something He made alive in me. that i somehow adopted my Father's love. i take on to care about what He cares about.

the freedom to do what's on my Father's heart..that reckless abandonment, its not making us into a wimp unable to face the grit of real life but in that paradox, it is when i surrender that i'm truly free. so free that there's an unspeakable strength that arises when met with every kind of situation. i learn to be His even in those vein-squeezing moments and i want to be His for whatever that transpire in this one life.

heard somewhere that obedience is simple when we obey..oxymoron somehow but true.

so you feeling yourselves struggling unecessary somehow?

maybe you should stop and truly ask why?

what treasures have we set our hearts on?

we somehow become what we pursue, you know.

So, what are you pursuing, pursuer?


Go with God, ppl!