TUESDAY - 11TH OCTOBER, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
YOUR CALLING; YOUR GREATNESS
Isaiah 51:1-2, KJV
"1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him."
At your coming to the earth, God does not have to give you money. In fact, He won't give you money but He'll pack you with gifts and calling. That's your provision for the journey and it's that one that determines what or who you'll become on earth. The calling and the gifts are two capsules that harbour your greatness if tilled.
Romans 11:29, KJV
"For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance."
Your calling is a manifestation of your gifts while your gifts are also manifestations of your calling. They unravel each other. This is why much emphasis must be laid on discovery. You did not arrive empty and hollowed on the inside. You came full but must go empty after letting the calling use your body and humanity. You're human but you carry God's writing and mandate in your spirit. At salvation, you receive God's nature and on going, you have clarity as to what your purpose should be. Then, discharge is what is left. Your calling will be clearer and louder than anything that'll be pouring into your soul. It'll become or create a pathway inside you telling you, "this is the way. Walk therein." All of us have what we must live for. As we fulfill it by time, we have some minimal level of satisfaction to ease us. Hunger and unsatisfactoriness is what God uses to call us to pursue it further until we each fulfil our course. Once you're acknowledged to be called, unnatural or gifted in a thing by your community, peers, elders etc, ensure it doesn't slip. Rather, nurture same to a peak where your gifts or calling would be useful to you without you necessarily giving it the attention of being useful to you. God is a God of disguise. He doesn't place the future as a whole in your hands but He requires of you faith to carry steps to unfold what lies beyond as you go.
Once you discover calling, and you begin to push that you fulfill it, as you attack a mandate on earth on behalf of God, you're not doing so without an earthly reward. God has destined that your reward be kept in your calling - in the one you till, plough and seriously heed to. The labourers deserve their wages was what Jesus Himself said. Is Jesus telling you something that as long as you do the job you'll have the wherewithal? You won't transcend the earth before you'll begin to reap the rewards of tilling your calling. God made it so.
Calling do expand also. What is inside it can't be underestimated. As a matter of fact, all of us don't know what our neighbour could become if he ploughs his calling and let that equipping of God possess him to become somebody for God in his own time. You have heard of many great men - those who did the extraordinary and the impossible. You wondered how. All they did was aided them by their callings. In your calling, you're taking over. It is no longer you but the God of the calling or the caller. That's why the Bible says, "faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it (I Thessalonians 5:24, KJV). Today, God is making calling delightful to one or two. You should enter into your calling. Look at Abraham your father and Sarah your mother. Look at what God made out of them after calling them out alone and making demands of Isaac on him. They became father and mother of nations. That's your story and your end. If you walk the path of the calling, everything you ever desire will satisfy you as you go. What you yet don't have is in your calling somewhere in the future reserved for you.
PRAYER: Lord, draw me after my purpose. No more reluctance. I yield to your call for my life
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Jeremiah 14:11-16:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:9-3:13, Psalm 80:1-19, Proverbs 25:1-5
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