The Tent: A safe place for shepherds to reflect together
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Bill H
Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Posts: 21
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject: His choice! |
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Psalm 78:70-72
70 He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;
71 from tending the sheep he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel his inheritance.
72 And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
with skilful hands, he led them.
This reading caused me to reflect on my calling. The key phrase that prodded me was “He chose Davidâ€. David experienced the call of God and a divine relocation from sheep pens to shepherding a nation. There was both continuity and a discontinuity in this movement. There was a clear call. This reading stirred something deep in me about the call of God. I am one who has battled with burn out and succumbed to depression and who was wounded in the battlefield. I seriously contemplated walking away from vocational ministry a couple of years ago. However, I have been haunted by a call.Laniak asks some piercing questions.
“Can we recall an occasion when a specific personal mission was planted in our hearts?â€
“Did an undeniable sense of unique destiny in the Kingdom of God surface during a particular season in life?â€
These questions and the recounting of David’s dramatic call were powerful. I was reminded of and confronted by the power and mystery of the call of God.†This spiritual calling, this destiny, this identity is more transcendent than a job description.â€
Jesus said,†You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.†(John 15:16) _________________ Bill H |
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