Calling According to His Purpose

 

Calling According to His Purpose

It’s more than a game.

You and I face battles every day.

Battles that make us question

the call of God on our lives.

But we are more than conquerors

through God’s LOVE for us.

 

 The apostle Paul tells us to make our calling sure.  Ephesians 4:1

In Romans 8, verses 28-30,

we discover our calling and ordination came according

to God’s purpose before you and I were born.

Our calling is simple:  To be like Jesus.

Those who receive this calling become brothers to Jesus.

Now the question is:  What are we going to do?

How are you and I going to respond to God’s

calling, justification and glorifying in us?

Before you answer the question,

God wants to reassure you

of your success in fulfilling His purpose.

He is for you, so who, or what, can be against you?

The Father gave you and I the dearest thing to His heart,

His only Son Jesus.

You tell me what would He keep from you

after He gave you the best?

When you got the best - you got the rest!

Yes, it is true, others who have had this call

were challenged.

They were condemned.

It wasn’t all pie in the sky.

But don’t forget God chose you;

that is special.

So who has a right to condemn you when Jesus died,

and better yet,

He rose from the dead for you!

  

You think about it every time trouble and hardship comes.

Think about His love for you

and you will find the confidence

to overcome every obstacle.

God’s love for you,

will keep you and I

in better or worse,

in sickness and in health.

There is no power good or bad that has the ability

to separate you and I from God’s love!

So wipe away the tears and hardships,

push your way through.

Get that big, loving hug from God.

You can do it…

because you are more than a CONQUEROR!

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 4:1 NIV

4:1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then,

I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.

Romans 8:28-39 NIV

28 And we know that in all things

God works for the good of those who love him,

who have been called according to his purpose.

29 For those God foreknew

he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son,

that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

30 And those he predestined, he also called;

those he called, he also justified;

those he justified, he also glorified.

31 What, then, shall we say in response to this?

If God is for us, who can be against us?

32 He who did not spare his own Son,

but gave him up for us all

— how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?

It is God who justifies.

34 Who is he that condemns?

Christ Jesus, who died

— more than that, who was raised to life

— is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall trouble or hardship

or persecution or famine

or nakedness or danger or sword?

 36 As it is written:

"For your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."  

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life,

neither angels nor demons,

neither the present nor the future,

nor any powers,

39 neither height nor depth,

nor anything else in all creation,

will be able to separate us from the love of God

that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.