What Is Your Calling?

As for me, I will certainly not sin against the Lord by ending my prayers for you.  And I will continue to teach you what is good and right. [1 Samuel 12.23]

Samuel was well aware of his calling to prayer.  Second to that, Samuel also knew he was a teacher.

So sure was Samuel of his calling, that he realized it would be sin for him to fail in fulfilling what the LORD had called him to do.

We do ourselves great injustice today to think of the LORD's calling upon our lives as an option.  And yet that is exactly what we do.

The reason we are able to justify our sin is that we largely do not promote or exercise a personal and intimate relationship with God.  Instead, we do our 'group thing' (we call it church) and (hopefully) discuss and learn the general instruction the Bible gives us as a group to avoid sin with little or no attention to the unique individual instruction of the Holy Spirit (i.e. "calling") which, left undone, is fully as much sin as any other directive found in the Bible.

The sad reality is that most 'church-goers' know embarrassingly little about what the LORD's general instruction  is to all, and less yet (if anything) about His specific and unique instruction to them as individuals!

What is your calling?  Should we not make more effort to know?

Father, I see there is no way the 'Body' can function effectively if the individual parts are clueless and incapable of performing their unique and specific roles!  Help us to dedicate the necessary devotion to learn and then fulfill our individual callings!