God’s Calling on Your Life

The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:24 (NIV)

God wants you to seek to grow in your calling, to mature it, to polish your gifts that are necessary for you to walk effectively in your calling.

Your calling is going to make life easy, but not because the call is a guarantee to success and prosperity, not because the call exempts you from being attacked by the enemy, not because the call makes you popular in the culture, but because the One who has called you is faithful.

You accept your calling and you nurture it because the God who has called you is dependable. If He said He’ll do it, then the weight of your call is on God. Everything you do to walk out your call is guaranteed by the faithfulness of God, and His faithfulness is perfect!

What does it mean when we talk about the faithfulness of God? It means you trust that God will never operate outside of His own character and that He is always going to be consistent. If God is always consistent, then we know salvation is always His chief aim. We know redemption is always available to everyone. We know His will predominates lived human experience. We know that God makes the choice to be on the side of the oppressed. He’ll never break His promise to you. He’ll never not love you. He’ll always want you to live your complete purpose. He'll always forgive your sin. He’ll always dispense gifts. He’ll always honor His covenant with us.

How might you think about your struggles, your current battles and stresses with this in mind and heart? You can stop telling yourself how hard the next season in your life is going to be, or how much sacrifice is being required of you. If what you believe about the faithfulness of God is heavily anchored and deeply convicted, then it doesn’t matter what you’re facing. You can pray to Him transparently and honestly, making confessions because you believe that God will always be consistent with you as part of His character. You know that His standard when dealing with you will always be based upon the obedient sacrifice of Jesus. And it is because of Jesus that God always sees you as justified.

It is God’s faithfulness that fuels our endurance. It is God’s faithfulness that makes you take the next step when you are fatigued from the previous step. It’s our belief in the faithfulness of God that helps us to know that we can get better and become more and be transformed in our hearts and minds.