THE CALLING # 6

No matter who we are or what we do occupationally as a man or woman; we are ‘called to the Lord’ when we are saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. When we are called to a specific task or function it appears from Scripture to be something that is a shared calling and to every believer. Paul, an apostle, wrote:

“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.” (1 Corinthians 12:4-7)

It is really rather blank and lame to say, “I don’t know if I’m called.” We all are.

“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many.” (1 Corinthians 12:12-14)

As one finishes reading this chapter, we know we are not all the same in gifts but we are the same in body, in necessity, in functions, as members and in reality. We are all called. We just do what we do by the power of the Holy Spirit.

“You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that the Father may give you whatever you ask Him in My name.” Jesus