MONDAY - 20TH JUNE, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
FULFILMENT IN BIT AND A WHOLE
Read Gen. 4:1-3
Genesis 4:2, KJV
"And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground."
"I'm not fulfilled, I'm not fulfilled" can come from your mouth after a search of heart and the desire to amount in this life. The next question should be, "how can I be fulfilled? How will I know I'm fulfilled with what I've found doing or by the way I now live?" It is an answer of the soul. It is an answer of whether you're contented with what you have found to do or you're still aspiring to another colony of career or calling. I found out by experience that fulfilment comes by finding your field and going to till it. When we speak of fulfilment and contentment, they are two things of the same mother that will begin to happen to you as soon as you find the life work God destines you do here. You'll be contented with what you're called to but you'll have fulfilment on and on as you pursue what you have settled for once and for all. This found life work may be breathed or inspired by flair, passion or desire. It may even be entered into because of experiences, training, education that dug what was already wired into your nature out. This calling of the soul might have been the sole reason why you're directed or influenced towards a choice of a career or calling but which you don't know.
God has not ordained that all humans who come here be same thing. Cain and Abel aren't. Esau and Jacob aren't also though twins (Gen.25:27). Men will always be different things in our world. It is for our good. For you to have a whole functional body, the parts can't be the same. Or, is your own body only composed of your eyes? Ask yourself how useful you'll have been as a person if all you have is your eyes. To our surprise though reality, when dealing with calling, we don't consider how prestigious or rewarding our calling might make us before we heed it. If God proposes you to be an artist, He's not expecting you to stop the process of becoming one because you discover being an engineer rakes in more money. God who ordains you to become an artist has given you ability in there. Even in ministry, though calling is general, yet there are peculiar callings that authorise the called to do certain things. God has destined it is there you'll have the attention of men and also be acclaimed. If you go to till another man's land, you won't be able to operate effortlessly by leveraging on your gifting or grace. Later, you'll lose them for lack of use and only be out of service having been driven solely by what money can offer you and not what calling can make you if you surrender to its wheel.
As far as I know, once you discover calling and follow it, you'll be only what you only can be in that area occupied by even many ahead you. I mean God intended you'll become a surprise to your world whether your calling is such that men respect or despise. Find it and get better. Once you find calling, there's a level of fulfilment you'll have whenever you do the work of your calling. Not that you'll be totally fulfilled once and for all. God will be calling you to come up hither often by the so many things He'll shine into your mind to do or take as the next steps. That's why you'll see a pastor who started with just a branch put out to have more in order to reach more people. As we follow this calling of God further to become our calling wholly, we'll be accumulating measure of fulfilment upon fulfilment. When you observe you're becoming a better person in your calling, there will be satisfaction, inner peace and contentment until you're one day assured you've fulfilled the mind of God wholly without withholding. It's then you can contemplate being called home by God like Paul. Why you have to find your calling and go into it now is because it is a burden you must live out and you don't have all the time as a mortal. A burden not discharged do haunt. Live it out and please Eternity who inscribed what you should become in you. His pen is fiery. That's why living out calling do reveal itself passionately. It do drive people. May you be driven by its power to achievement.
PRAYER: Lord, I banish confusion. I receive clarity on my life work. I won't be distracted from it. I become in it until the day is dawn.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 20:1-21:29; Acts 12:24-13:15; Psalm 137:1-9; Proverbs 17:16
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