Walk Worthy

Day 29- Walk Worthy

Ephesians 4:1-2 NIV

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

Romans 8:29-30 NIV

For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

There is indeed something peculiar about the faith that we profess; there is something deep about it that cannot be understood on human terms or with human wisdom. For all who have been born of a woman have received a call to work for and with God. It doesn't matter into which family you were born; as long as you are human, you have received a call from God that nothing in life can take away or dispose of until you have died physically. Its not, really first of all, a matter of salvation; it is a matter of birth and an investment of God in eternity. There is a supreme knowledge of God that is seen in the pages of Scriptures like  Psalm 139:16 NIV:  Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. This verse points to the fact that God's call is not really about our choice of salvation but first of all, our choice of birth.

It is when we have accepted him as Saviour and Lord that the call finds true expression. The call has always been there but whatever God has put in us will only answer to his voice in us. We can't discover the call of God or his purpose for our lives outside of him. We cannot force it out, neither can anyone tell us what it is. We can only discover what it is when we come into the saving and liberating knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Paul's charge here, therefore, will make no sense to the man who is yet to know Christ. The call is there, but he has not yet heeded. But for all of us who claim we have known him and experienced him, are our lives showing proof that we are headed in the direction God wants us to go? Can we claim that we are truly working worthy of the call we have received? It is a call by God, not by man, and it is a call to work for God, not man. The standards we are to follow are therefore, not man's, but God's. It is a call to an unusual life, one that the world does not understand or comprehend. It is a call to service to God on his terms and time, so that the world will see the greatness and the glory of God in and through us. The question is: are you walking worthy of God's call?

As we go out today, let us remember that we are on duty for God, not for ourselves or to please man. Our terms of our calling are determined by God, not man. Fear God, not man. Remember that every man will himself stand before God for judgement. His time of favour is here.

PRAYER- Lord, help me walk worthy of your call upon my life. May I live in your fear, so that my life will be a message to my generation. Amen.