GodReflection: When God Calls

At prior times on this Blog I’ve admitted to being a ‘Baby Boomer,’ a great-grandchild of the Enlightenment, and a child of the Scientific Age a time when everything had to be proven as to its reality.

Translation: that meant I learned if I couldn’t touch, tastes, or feel something with my hands it didn’t exist. I did however get a pass on God. I was taught that He was the real and only creator.

That didn’t leave me a lot of room for the unseen. Thus, in our church the idea of a call from God didn’t get much billing.

Our preachers and teaches owned a solid touchable Bible and had no trouble with the Holy Spirit’s role in divine inspiration. I was baptized in the name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit and was told the Holy Spirit acted upon me through the inspired Bible.

Although we were taught that God answers prayer, we didn’t have much credence in the activity of the unseen Holy in our lives. I do not recall one testimony in our church where anyone declared having received the call of God to do anything.

Let me be clear. I don’t deny anyone’s call. It was just not expressed in such terms in our church.

When I read my Bible, I find it to be a grand compilation of men and women called throughout thousands of years by the God of the universe to work in partnership with Him for the salvation of His beloved humans.

God called Abraham, Moses, Mary and Saul of Tarsus rather directly.
While He called others like Joseph, Peter and Dorcus through more ambiguous circumstances.

Creation God has been active in each and every stage of history. He continues to work with His created ones to share His purposes and His story with other created ones. Continually, He calls each one into action.

As I have confessed before I am a whole lot more adept at hindsight than I am at foresight. In times of reflection over my past it isn’t all that difficult to spot the signpost where God had His hand upon my life. He called.

I can see specific times and places when God called. There were times when I responded. I can see clearly other times when I lacked the necessary trust to take the assignment.

Over the next several posts I want to explore the call of God. I investigated it somewhat in a former series of posts titled “Silent God—Seeking His Voice.”

As I continue to reflect, I think I see a much wider bandwidth used by God as He calls each and every believer into the service of King Jesus.

I’m beginning to see in a clearer manner how God calls us at different stages of our lives to a grand variety of kingdom tasks and in specific directions.

I’ve never heard the audible voice of God. He has not approached me as directly as He did Samuel with his call, “Samuel, Samuel”. I stand more in the assembly of the multitudes across the history of God’s people who moved with sense of being nudged in a certain direction.

I look forward to further reflections on the reality of God’s call on each one of us throughout our lifetime. I hope you will share with me your insights. I want to make this a rich series. This is an area where I would like to reach greater clarity.

Stay tuned.

Dr. Gary J. Sorrells
A GodReflection: When God Calls

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