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August 5, 2008
THE BAFFLING CALL OF GOD
And all things that are written by the prophets
concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished ... And
they understood none of these things.
Luke 18:31,34
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=lu+18:31,34&sr=1
God called Jesus Christ to what seemed unmitigated disaster. Jesus
Christ called His disciples to see Him put to death; He led every one
of them to the place where their hearts were broken. Jesus Christ's
life was an absolute failure from every standpoint but God's. But
what seemed failure from man's standpoint was a tremendous triumph
from God's, because God's purpose is never man's purpose.
There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of
God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God
is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the
nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the
call of God is to, because His call is to be in comradeship with
Himself for His own purposes, and the test is to believe that God
knows what He is after. The things that happen do not happen by
chance, they happen entirely in the decree of God. God is working out
His purposes.
If we are in communion with God and recognize that He is taking us
into His purposes, we shall no longer try to find out what His
purposes are. As we go on in the Christian life it gets simpler,
because we are less inclined to say - Now why did God allow this and
that? Behind the whole thing lies the compelling of God. "There's a
divinity that shapes our ends." A Christian is one who trusts the
wits and the wisdom of God, and not his own wits. If we have a
purpose of our own, it destroys the simplicity and the leisureliness
which ought to characterize the children of God.
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