God is Calling Me
Like many of you I long to do something significant. I want to be a part of something of great importance. I believe that I was created by God for something special. I know that sounds tacky, but I really believe it.
As the years have gone by, my calling has gotten clearer and clearer to me. Its sweetness and my desire to do it have increased in tandem with that clarity. When you know that you know that you know that God has called you to a particular ministry that ministry becomes so desirable.
God has given me an increasingly Godly wife who bears the name of what I am finding in Gods call: Joy. She respects me. She challenges me. My wife loves me. She is also the mother of our children and, contrary to the continuous lies of the enemy, she is a good mother to them!
God has given me four children. Four! Each one is such a lavishly precious gift from God to me. To me! It is so so so easy for me to miss that, but by Gods grace I am seeing and responding to that reality more and more.
Gods calling is that I would lead this household well. It is a calling of extreme importance. One that will have profound effects for the joy of many people and the name of my God.
His calling on my life hasn’t changed in the past 7 years, but my reception and embracing and enjoying of it has.
He is calling you too by the way.
January 21st, 2009 at 2:07 pm
AMEN. That is a great reminder to all of us. I wish that all men would step up to the plate and love their women as Christ loved the church and to raise up a generation of kids who know Jesus and have seen their whole life what sacrificial love looks like.
Blessings,
Matt
January 21st, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Way to go! Think about your family often. Blessings.
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Very cool!