The Calling

A lot of people have been asking me about this calling concept.  My friends hear me say “follow your calling” or “we are called to” this and that.  It has become a major part of how I approach my interactions with others and even my own decision making.  I have recently been conducting a study on the Book of Jeremiah and without necessarily searching for it, I received a powerful revelation regarding our calling in Jeremiah 1:4-10.

Now the word of the Lord came to me saying,

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
And before you were born I consecrated you;
I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Then I said, “Alas, Lord God!
Behold, I do not know how to speak,
Because I am a youth.”
But the Lord said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
Because everywhere I send you, you shall go,
And all that I command you, you shall speak.
Do not be afraid of them,

For I am with you to deliver you,” declares the Lord.

Then the Lord stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me,“Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

“See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms,
To pluck up and to break down,
To destroy and to overthrow,
To build and to plant.”

In the text, God shares with Jeremiah a calling for his life that precedes even his very existence.  Before Jeremiah was formed, before Jeremiah was born, God had determined that Jeremiah would be a prophet to the nations of God’s people.  Like many of us from time to time, Jeremiah made excuses for why he could not answer God’s calling for his life.  His claims of the limitations regarding his youth were immediately shut down by God with additional qualifiers on how Jeremiah’s calling would manifest itself to include the restructuring and rebuilding which would need to take place amidst God’s people.  The message to us today is that once God decides we are called to something, the calling is without repentance, irrevocable, and never withdrawn.  It becomes incumbent upon us to follow our calling recognizing that “according to His divine power, God has given us everything which pertains to life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3).”

On this site, we will learn how to truly carry out the callings God has on our lives and for many of us discover what those calling are.  We will hear from God on what He expects regarding our callings.  We will study examples of God’s men throughout history and how their callings were made manifest.  We will pray together for revelation.