Title
-- Make Your Calling and Election Sure!
As we mention
election and calling we must acknowledge the many different rivers of thought
on the subjects. Election and Calling like Predestination, Sovereignty of God,
and Eternal Security are all subjects of great controversy through out the
years.
Is this faith life based on foreknowledge or divine call, to the individual or
to a group, dependant upon a person’s reception or rejection or all
inclusive? Can you walk away from true faith or are you eternally secured
period!
The arguments go
on endlessly and have been discussed by theologians like John Calvin, James Arminius and in the twentieth century Karl Barth.
Things I
believe… based on scripture
We were dead in sin and incapable of choosing God on our own. God called us and
gave us opportunity to respond to Him. This election of God to reach out to you
and I must be met with a response and we must understand how thankful we should
be at the opportunity to be involved with God in a life of faith. We should
pursue the calling of God to our lives with great energy, not out of fear of
being lost or dropped, rather out of extreme gratitude of being called. What a
privilege to be able to know God and be known by God.
For the purpose of this lesson… I am not speaking of calling and election
from the standpoint of salvation or loosing salvation, rather I want to focus
us on the opportunity to live a life of faith and the effect it can have on you
and I now. I believe it is a clear reality God calls people to particular
positions and callings and if fortunate to recognize this election and calling
to a life of faith, we should take this fact with extreme
conscientiousness.