Your Calling
God takes a nobody and makes them a somebody without consulting with anybody.
God is not looking for someone who has it all together and therefore feels they need no real help in achieving anything. Such a person is not likely to know what it means to trust in the strength of another as they should. They will not be inclined to seek His empowerment to do His will.
1Corinthians 1:26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— 31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.”
Our Father loves to use you in your weaknesses and frailties so that the glory goes to Him. The temptation to boast in yourself is removed, and you give glory to Him because this thing that was accomplished could only have been accomplished by Him. This is why Paul declared he boasted about his weaknesses, for Christ was made his strength in those weaknesses.
What you and others see as a weakness, God sees as potential.
This is why every believer can have purpose and initiative in Christ. Jesus did not stop at merely saving you so you could go to heaven. He saved you for His glory. He wants to be in fellowship with you every day and reveal to you the plans He has for you—plans for good and not for evil.
Jesus wants to do things through you that exceed your natural abilities in order to give God glory and testify of His goodness. To take part in this grand scheme of God demonstrating His glory through you, there is a call to surrender to the will of the Spirit and allow Him to use you. He can do through you according to the working of His mighty power that which you cannot do yourself.
The more you see Him and His willingness to work through you in faith and power, the more you will find your life bringing glory to God. You were a nobody who is now somebody because of Him, and He isn’t worried about what anybody thinks about His doing that. This is your calling: to walk according to the Spirit and to surrender to His leading in your life. If you walk according to the Spirit, you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. You have what it takes to bring Him glory through your life. It’s your calling.
