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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHEN YOU DISCOVER YOUR CALLING; YOU HAVE A DELIGHT - Separated Unto Purpose Series 006
Luke 2:43, KJV
"And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it."
The moment you discover your calling, you immediately have something to rejoice your heart other than food and things that people holler or struggle for.
The Psalmist while speaking says, "Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased" (Psalms 4:7, KJV). He simply talks of the joy that comes with harvest or payment of one's salary. He said he has joy more than those moments could avail because God has given him joy. One major way that I have found by which one can remain saturated with joy is through the discovery and doing of his calling. It never tires you. Even when your bones and flesh are weary and you take a nap, you come back refreshed to continue the pursuit of your calling. No confession like "this thing is beginning to become monotonous". It can't be because there is an array or layers of discoveries for you to stumble at and be attracted by daily in your calling. You can't for once see it all. You'll rather be making discoveries of interesting findings daily. Every calling though just one is multidimensional. School, church, orphanage, hospital and even NGOs may manifest from a calling - just one calling. We've seen that in the callings of many ministers of God for instance.
So, you can't be bored because the calling you have found is your delight (what you want to do and like doing) and also because it's multidimensional - offering many possibilities. What is a delight? It's what has your attention more than any other thing in the world. I'm not trying to sound uncaring or non-challant. My greatest delight is not my family. It is my calling and seeking to discharge all that it harbours and contains. One may not marry; that ain't any sin but once you're given birth to, you ought fulfill purpose. If you have a family and you aren't even fulfilling purpose, you'd be depressed, frustrated and tired. This offcourse will be contagious - burdening your family if you have any. I'm not comforted with the fact that I have a spouse or a family. No! My life is beyond making babies. I take real joy and pride in the fact that the things impressed divinely on my heart by God at creation - the reason for my coming here from heaven are being discharged and minted out. God created us for a purpose. He put and contained our spirit in a body for a purpose. It'll be the greatest disappointment coming to earth without fulfilling that one purpose. Whether you're married or not, one thing should be common to us all - fulfilment of purpose.
That's why Jesus makes a confession saying, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work" (John 4:34, KJV). You're a failure on earth if you have not found the will or work of He that sent you, get engaged with it and with the ultimate aim of finishing it all. When Jesus cried, "it is finished" (John 19:30) on the cross of Calvary, indeed it was finished. That's the peak of His calling - dying to redeem humanity. He attained it. Not one was lacking. So, once you find your calling, it should become your delight and because it is a delight, it will urge you on. It will move you to move. It will move you past the tedium of discharging it. It will make you feel alive and significant. People who aren't living purposefully are dying organisms. They don't have vibrancy or robustness on the inside. They'll be lean in their souls and fatigue in spirit.
It's only delight that becomes "meat" to anyone. Despite the pressure from the disciples that Jesus should eat and participate in the ephemeral, Jesus keeps refusing and refuting with, "my meat (aim, purpose, singular discovery and focus, calling, mandate, destiny) is to do the works of He that sent me and to finish it. In essence, he was correcting them from misplaced priority. He was saying, here's a soul to win and run after and here you are talking about physical food. Why did I come to the earth? To eat physical food and be filled or to do the works of He that sent me and to finish it? However, the disciples are more of lost souls here. They just couldn't get the message. They were so lost and of slow understanding that they were asking one another, "has anyone brought Him food, bread or meat while we were not around?" (John 4:33). You see, misplaced priority.
Jesus found his delight at age twelve when he began to tarry with it and he ate it all until it was finished at Calvary. Oh, may you find your calling and may your calling finds you. May you locate the field the Master Groomer and Allocator wants you to give your years on earth to till. May you not cultivate the wrong garden thereby losing your rewards.
PRAYER: Today, open my understanding to locate the garden I should till. Relocate and realign me to destiny.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 14:1-57, Mark 6:30-56, Psalm 40:1-10, Proverbs 10:11-12
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