Corona Devo 1450

Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God.  ~Ephesians 4:1  

Paul is in a prison cell (a prisoner for serving the Lord) when he is telling us, begging us to lead a life worthy of our calling.

Although he is currently a prisoner for serving the Lord, Paul is not at all warning us NOT to follow God: the opposite is his charge for us: Even though he was in prison for serving the Lord...DO IT!  It is our calling.

That's bold. 

But that's God's call for us.  

...lead a life worthy of your calling...  Ephesians 4:1

Has anyone ever told us this before?  That we have been called by God?  Have we been begged to respond to this calling?

Did we (even) know that we have a calling?  

We absolutely do.  If we read the Bible...if we believe that it is God's Word, and if we believe what the Bible says...then you and me (and all of us) have been called by God.

Therefore I...beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God.  ~Ephesians 4:1  (Emphasis mine.)

I'm not trying to belabor the point, but Paul is begging us, so I wanted to do my best to make his point.  

So...have we reached an understanding?  That we (you and me!) have been called by God and that we should lead a life worthy of our calling?

Sidenote: If we disagree with this, feel unworthy of God's call, or (worse) feel His call is unecessary upon our lives: then our arguement is with the Lord and the Bible (not me).  These are words coming to us through God's Word.  We have a choice to take them or leave them, but Paul is begging us to take them and to lead a life worthy of your calling.

What will-this or does-this look like in our lives (You leading-a-life worthy of your calling and me leading-a-life worthy of my calling)?

For that answer, we will have to clarify...and (I think) that we have to receive Paul's words to us on two levels.  The specific "call" that all people have on their life to lead a life worthy (of serving the Lord) is the same.  We all are called and God longs for each of us to enter into relationship with Him.

But the second-stage, of how we lead a life worthy of our calling is specific to each one of us.  Unique to the gifts God's given us and to the people He has placed in our lives to share Him with.  

Mailperson or business person, baker, doctor, nurse, librarian or teacher...architect or engineer, church ministry or marketplace ministry, life guard or pizza-maker, computers or concrete, mom, dad, or child...we each have a calling on our lives.  

Paul, who understood what living-for-the-Lord meant better than almost anyone...begs us to open the door to this calling that we definitely have.  We can't walk in his shoes, but we each have our own to fill.

Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God.  ~Ephesians 4:1 

So let's, lead a life worthy of our calling today. 

DO IT!   It's our calling by God.

Blessings,

sarah

https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com 

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