The High Calling

Every Believer Has a High Calling

Once on a Sunday morning, I heard a message from a new speaker who was a missionary, who had left his wealth to serve the Lord on the mission fields, a very commendable thing to do.  During the course of his sermon, he started rebuking the people in church saying that the people in church were all living in comfort zones by working in secular jobs and every Christian should leave their jobs and join the mission field.  The whole sermon was a tirade of rebuke.  I think the poor preacher forgot that if all Christians left work to join the mission fields, there would be no Christian doctors, teachers etc.,  and also no one to support missionary outreach!  Also, he forgot that there has to be a call from God to serve in missions.

One does not randomly leave everything and join missions.  Many, many people have fallen very badly because they joined missions feeling it was a good thing to do, but they were not called to it and their fall was hard.  The Lord calls us to even specific geographic locations according to His plan, but we have to hear His voice to follow His plan.

The truth is even in ministry, we may be walking far from God, and many have fallen into devious sins just due to the assumption that we are doing God's will so have curried His favor so just get mechanical about literally everything and sometimes suffer from spiritual superiority which is a sin.

There is no dividing line between the sacred and the secular because wherever the Lord is present, that place becomes holy.  We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and the secular becomes sacred if the Holy Spirit is in us.  Even in our homes! 

We can bring powerful revival even in our homes, among our children, our spouses, relatives, workplace, and people that we encounter in life if we are in a walking talking and obedient relationship with the Lord.

In this, we are walking in the Fire of the Presence of God and then miracles happen and we can make a difference to the world wherever we are, evoking change and revival, just walking in the Fire of the Presence of God.  We do not have to leave our jobs and join ministry to do so, just wherever we are, abide in Christ so that we remain in the Fire of God's Presence!

Every child of God born of His Spirit has a high calling.  "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." Peter 2:9.  

Wherever we are, be it cleaners, cooks, housewives, doctors, government ministers, police, army, hospitals, CEOs of companies, trainers, receptionists, secretaries, teachers, whatever jobs, we are to be the salt and light of the world, lamps shining in a dark world and bring the sweet savor of Christ to all.

One does not have to join a formal ministry for this to happen.  -You can be present where you are, in whatever you are doing and carry the Presence of the Lord who will bring that change and lead you in pathways you could never even dream of.

He is the great I Am, the God of the Present, wherever we are, by abiding in Christ, we can be powerful messengers for the Kingdom of God and help to deliver people out of darkness into His glorious light.

Rita Farhat Kurian