MONDAY April 8, 2024
In Christ, Who Has God Called You to Be?
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God....
Ephesians 1:1
Again, Paul, [was] an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God.... Place your name in this verse, but with the word that best describes who God has called you to be.
Some people believe the highest calling a person can have is to be called into the ministry––to be a pastor or an evangelist––but that is not true. As a child of God, the highest calling you can have is to be whatever the Lord has called you to be. This means, whether you are a student, a mother and housewife, an athlete, a doctor, a lawyer, a banker, a plumber, or involved in any business, this is your high calling.
My wife Sharon has ministered to thousands of women and has said:
Busy mothers who are running around getting their kids off to school, taking them to their different activities and appointments, and making sure to take them to church so they can know God for themselves have a vital call.
It is a great privilege to be a mother. While the father is away working hard to make a living, the mother is fulfilling her call by training her children in the ways of the Lord. A mother’s children are her little disciples.
Some people become dissatisfied with their lives and calling––sad. There needs to be contentment with the call of God. Think about all the great opportunities you have to be used by God as you meet different people every single day. You can be such a witness for Christ in the place He has called you to be.
Now, contentment is one of the flowers of heaven, and if we would have it, it must be cultivated; it will not grow in us by nature; it is the new nature alone that can produce it, and even then we must be specially careful and watchful that we maintain and cultivate the grace which God has sown in us.
~Charles H. Spurgeon~
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