Many at times, people don't realize the true calling of God. Everyone on a pulpit today would say, God called him or her to work for him, but the question is this, Do you know the purpose of your calling?
Back in the old days, God never called anyone, without letting them know their purpose of the call. He called so many great prophets, who's primary duty was to spread the good news and proclaim messages that the good Lord want the people to hear. For example, people like Moses, Elijah, Joshua, Elisha, Jeremiah, Paul, Silas, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Samuel and so on. These set of people and their likes in the bible, were particularly called by God to carry out errands of delivery God's word to the people or anyone who its meant for. Their life and partern of doing things will have almost some similarities.
•They have nothing to do with wealth or riches.
•Their divine purpose was purely passing on messages for God, they were more of God's Messengers.
•They had a very normal lifestyle, without anything to make them standout in public, except when they start pronouncing God's word, or when they carry out the duty of the Lord.
•Their standard of living was more of average, because they tend to travel alot and moved from one place to another, while working for God.
•Their means of livelihood, was solely depended on God and they have nothing to worry about, cause when God calls you, he always makes provision for your welfare.
Now, we have our kings and rulers, These are people that God find capable of leading his people, these are not Messengers, these are not prophets, they are divinely selected by God for the purpose of leading the peoole the way God wants the people to be led.
And most importantly, these kings most times, don't communicate with God directly, most times, God talk to them through his prophets, his Messengers, and these kings, reagrdless of their powers, show absolute respect for the Messengers of God, because they carry the divine instructions of God, on how they are to carry out their duties.
And while on the duty of ruling and kingship, God always makes sure that, everything needed for the purpose of their work force is provided. They are allowed to be rich and and wealthy, acquire whatever they want, and in most of their stories you find out that, the riches would want to make them stray away from God, but God always has his Messengers to pass a solid warning, if they happen to do things differently from what he has instructed them to do.
Example of such kings are David, Solomon, Saul and so on.
We all know how King Saul was disobedient to God even while he was king and God took away his kingship and gave it to David.
1 Samuel 16: 1
16 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”
That's to show you that, even at your peak, you need to show absolutely respect and be obedient to God, or else the same way he brought you up, is same ways he's goint to take it back from you.
Now in this present times, people need to understand the purpose of their calling, you can't say, God called you to carry out his messages, like a prophet and you live and work like a king, you claim to be a messenger of God, but you don't move from your luxurious churches, or your mansion homes, you walk around with heavily armed securities, what are you scared of? the devil?
You claim to be a messenger of God and you've never gone to villages, outskirts of towns, people that have not been opportune to hear the word of God and feel the good news in their heart, to talk to them about Christ and salvation.
If God need you to be a particular ruler of a particular area, he's going to make it clear, If God need you to be a prophet and carry out his duty on his people, he's going to make it clear. Don't complicate the work of God and use it for your own selfish interest, else you might just incure the wrath of God without even knowing.
So brothers and sisters, it is better you pray and allow God speak to you and direct you on the part he wants you to follow and work for him.
May the a good Lord grant us his divine direction, so we might not be lost. Amen.
Thanks for this fine writeup. I agree with you. There is always a purpose for God's calling. In the past too, God called prophets in order to tell the people what will be the outcome of their actions. The good news is the primary work today, everyone should be involved in that.
Thanks for joining us at SteemChurch Sandra.
Bringing a person out of Satan’s hand and out of the kingdom of darkness is a mighty work, and the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to all those who believe. We need to recover the proper gospel preaching in a strong way as the Lord Jesus did so that others would be brought out of the authority of darkness and into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love.
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Thanks for the message, God calls people's send them to preach his word so that man may have salvation.
as Christians we are all
called to Christ, to follow and obey Him. He made that clear when He said to His disciples, “If anyone would come after me he must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me (Luke 9:23).” The call to Jesus Himself is the ultimate call on our lives.
Everybody on earth has a defined path God has already structured for us, by his calling you are made to fulfill one purpose, he don't just call because he feels like but because you have a space to occupy in his calendar.
The purpose of God's call is to bring to you the purpose why he created you and as one who believes, you're to take this call into heart and act according to his will. He his ever faithful and will never fail in his ways towards you.
God's calling is pure....
Thanks for sharing
You are very right , people just come and say whatever they wish to say and at last they term it ad Gods calling.
The lord is not a lier neither is hr an unfaithful God , his true manifestation is not done by people he does his work by him self and he never takes permission from any body.
many will come as the chosen one but be ready to know the chosen one from God
God's calling is always something believers should look forward to, these days many people rejects the call of God, however like you said, God called various people in the bible and gave them specific purposes, these days we as Christian must look for signs, anytime God calls, we must surely answer without hesitation.