A friend and great Bible teacher, Michael Bennett, last night spoke about John the Baptist and how we can look at his life to help us understand our own callings. I remember reading Erwin McManus' thoughts on John, and how John had this awesome calling to prepare the way for Jesus, then ends up in jail...wondering if he was wrong all along...and then gets beheaded. Its an intense picture about how our lives, with Jesus, are no longer ours to live...as Jesus sacrificed Himself for us, we've also died and been raised INTO Him. It's not ridiculous to say that God could ask you to do something radical, like for example give up all of your possessions,or move to a foreign country....or pray for your professor.
One thing that stuck out from these thoughts about John, was the encouragement to worship the Call-er not the Call-ing. Just like we might say worship the author not the book, or the Creator and not the Creation, there are many things seeking our attention and our worship. But those other things we worship leave us hungry and thirsty for more--we've all experienced that. But the beauty is that when we come to Jesus, we won't ever thirst again and we won't ever be hungry again. Yea. God is good to us.
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