Getting Your Calling Right (2): When Character Isn’t Calling

Getting Your Calling Right (2): When Character Isn’t the Same as Calling

 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called. – Ephesians 4:1

Riding on the heel of the series we started yesterday by meditating on how to get our calling right and not make the mistake of answering someone else’s call or functioning in another person’s calling, we will now proceed to explore one of the major consequences of occupying a spiritual office one is not called to: one end up being a fake.

Now the person in question may be pious, humble, virtuous and have all the attributes of a good person. But, if they are operating in another person’s calling, they will still be a fake pastor, apostle, prophet, evangelist, teacher or any office they may be called.

So, there is a difference between character and calling. While these two may intersect as in character making the called either easily acceptable or repulsive to people; or, on the other hand, the weight of a calling tempering someone’s hitherto odious character to make them more accessible and acceptable, that does not make them two the same or interchangeable.

For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. – 1 Corinthians 3:11-15

You Will Succeed in Jesus Name!

Also read:

• Getting Your Calling Right (1)
• Understanding the Devil: Exposing His Schemes and Tactics
• Women in the Bible: Eve, the Naive
• In One Basket: Finding Unfailing Hope in God
• How’s Your Communication?
• Salvation Through a Dream

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