A HIGHER CALLING

1. A Higher Calling

a) Sometimes you may wonder why you have not been called or appointed to a place of ministry in a church setting despite the fact that you may seem to have qualified for it. You may wonder why you were not noticed and you may feel that there may be some injustice in your life.

b) One good possible reason may be that God is preparing you for even a better higher calling.

c) If you have a higher calling, you are going to do something that is more noble or more beneficial to mankind that either what your are doing now or what you could have done.

d) As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. 'Follow me,' he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. (Matthew 9:9)

e) Your calling is not something that you are called to “do” with your life, a cheque you earn, or a title at work. It is something you are to “be”.

f) Jesus sought out his disciple Matthew. He saw him sitting at the tax collector’s booth and simply said, “Follow me.” And Matthew followed.

g) Your higher calling is to come when Jesus calls and to obey him. Draw near, and spend your life following his Word. Even if it is just being faithful during the mundane moments of life, that is enough. Your worth is not based on works, you are defined through the worth that God gives you — a worth that comes from and is found only in Christ.

h) Perhaps you may have already discovered that there are some moments in life that are missing. You do not have that opportunity to do in the past. But now you seem to have the time to fulfill it. This could be your time, this could be your season, this may be your higher calling!

i) As Paul says, "Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14)