Time to stop playing
Clash of Kingdoms
A real man leaves this world with more in his wake than he took. It is time to stop playing and shirking responsibility and start living out the call. What does that mean? It means seeking, really seeking God's call. Confirming that call with the church and then throwing all behind pursuing that call, living it out, exploring it, making it happen.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. (1 Corinthians 15)
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2)
God has poured his grace upon me. His grace is not in vain. I will work harder than any through that grace to do the works God has prepared in advance.
I believe my call is to teach and preach the Bible. I know no more than that. I do not know the context, but I do know that much, so I need to develop that.
If that is my call, which it is: I must spend my money to that purpose, use my time to that purpose, choose my words to that purpose, set my heart to that purpose, live and give my life to that purpose.
I must remain accountable to the call. I must stop playing and define my life so that God's glory is revealed most fully. I do not want to come before the throne of God, bow the knee before King Jesus and know that I wasted my life.
It is time. Time to move beyond mediocre into the passionate God-exalting life that has always been planned for me. It's time. Time to put childish things behind me. It's time.
"... Be strong, and show yourself a man" (1 Kings 2)
Man up.
J McGuinness
November
