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April 11, 2005
the problem of call
there has been a lot of talk about the creating and embracing a culture of call within the church. i suppose we do the creating of the culture, and God's part is the calling. with a generation that is slow to commit and or to step up into leadership, it is a good thing to talk and listen about.
i have a question. the question of time. as a college student, calling talk seems to point to the future. something that is to be realized x number of years down the road. and the problem is that we will find ourselves in a continual mode of living for or thinking about the next day/month/years and so on.
but Jesus says, "don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring enough worries of its own. today's trouble is enough for today." (mt 6.34) and on the year of the Lord's favor: "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing" (lk 4.21)
i read on a friend's website that he doesn't talk about his studies as if he is studying to be an engineer, he says "i am an engineer!" do i do the same at times, thinking of collage as a phase to wait through in order to pass to another step, or can i just as much hear the call that beckons me to be more fully where i am right now... i may be studying to perhaps one day involved in the church, but right now as well, i am a minister of the gospel!
Posted by Derrick at April 11, 2005 12:30 PM