GodReflection: When God Calls

In my last post I closed with a faint echo of God’s call here in my sunset years. Let me make one more observation.

Not many weeks ago we went through the clock reset in our home as we moved forward each timepiece one hour to coincide with the new daylight savings time change throughout the nation.

In our time conscious world, we have at least one clock per room. Some rooms may have two or three clocks to be within easy glance day or night.

Funny thing about those clocks, they are never in sequence. Every clock may have a one to three or four-minute variance from the others.

My clocks are not precise.

Then there is God.

His eternity to eternity nature seems to have no comprehension of my time phobia.

Yet His eternal time piece keeps precise time with every tick of my life. He reads me like a clock—His clock. God knows my every thought before I think it. He knows each step I take before I take it. He feels every beat of my heart and smiles at the times when that beat is in sync with His.

He reads my clock perfectly but my little human brain can’t read His eternal Rolex at all.
That one fact makes God’s call an exercise of faith. To follow God’s call demands trust.

I read David’s confession of God’s presence in Psalms 139:

You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

I think back over the long roll call over the pages of Scripture with names of those who followed God over the centuries. In the vast majority of cases God’s call, the answer of the person, and God’s action or answer turned into a scene played out over a lifetime.
In cases like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and Moses the results of obedient answers were only fulfilled centuries later.

So here I sit without a timepiece that accurately anticipates or verifies God’s calls throughout my day, my week and my year. I have no way to predict His future action in my life. Where does that leave me?

OK, here is where I think I’m at.

I believe deeply that Holy God resides in me through His Spirit as He constantly calls out for me to follow and to grow. He is at work to aid my slow metamorphic walk into His likeness.

However, I may not recognize impulses as His call. And, even when I do, my mortal self can not predict the full implications, consequences or His timing. I am left only to follow with a sometime weak and at other times confident trust.

My bottom line is yes God calls and it is always His perfect timing.

Will you join as together we attempt to believe what I just wrote?

Stay tuned.

Dr. Gary J. Sorrells
A GodReflection: God’s Call—His Timing

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