Our God is a calling God. Throughout all time, we find God calling people to carry out specific tasks – wealthy and settled Abraham was called to leave everything and go to a land that God would show him; the reluctant Moses was called to lead the people of Israel to freedom; the shepherd boy David, not old enough yet to shave, was called to be king; Gideon, who wanted proof that it was really God who was speaking to him, was called to lead an army against Israel’s enemies; the cheat and thief Matthew was called to be a disciple; the Christian hater, Saul of Tarsus, was called to be a missionary to the Gentiles. What is evident in all these examples is that the people whom God calls to do his work are ordinary people like you and me – people with weaknesses and handicaps, people with their fair share of marriage and family problems, people who don’t have much going for them from a human point of view. It is not beyond God to seemingly call the wrong people, for the wrong jobs at the wrong time and place. It seems all wrong doesn’t, but God knows what he is doing.
What are you called to?
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