When Peter preached at Pentecost, 3000 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 wasn’t his chief calling: ” I came to you…timid and trembling..my message and my preaching were very plain” (1 cor 2:3-4). Yet while he might 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: let every man abide in the ..calling wherein he was called.’ What Paul lacked was 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 didn’t need to preach; he wrote the inspired Word that enable others to do it.
Something so powerful was released through Paul’s writings that even when they threw him in jail he didn’t 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?
I asked myself the same question this morning..but I believe this time is different and even if we feel like we wasted time, God is faithful to give as a second chance and renew the passion and the calling to our hearts again. I encourage you today in that place you are in, whether you know your calling or you don’t; continue to love the Lord God with all your heart, mind and soul. Take a step forward knowing He who started a new thing in you is faithful to complete it.
I’m just encouraged that the Lord wants to use each one of us. My passion is renewed and I can’t wait to continue to leave Jesus freebies wherever I go.
Have a beautiful day and live each min with purpose and authentic* He loves you and wants you to be part of it too =)
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