The Price and The Prize
of the High Calling
What is the price that we need to pay, to receive the prize of our
high calling?
Mark 10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto
you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father,
or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
Mark 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this
time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands,
with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Not all has to make this sacrifice, but some do.
I think all of us has to make some sacrifice of some kind, how
small, or how big, and whatever the sacrifice is, that is required of us, we
never lose in the end..
What God calls us to do, and makes a way for us to do, then we will
love what He leads us into, if not straight away, then some where down the
road, we will really love doing, what God has chosen for us to do.
The cost sometimes is enormous, other times it is little, but
whatever, we will come to a place where our love for our Lord, will be more
precious than our will or our feelings, or our loss, if any.
Philippians 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for
the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my
Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but
dung, that I may win Christ,
Since the Holy Spirit has led me into writing, I have had many a problem,
and I do count it all joy, though not always experienced the joy, when going
through the rough places, even though I should.
Paul says count it all joy, and we should that is you and me,
praise God even if it is a sacrifice, James 1:2 whether it be a temptation or a
hardship.
Remember that
It is so important for each of us to have that joy coming out of
our spirit, whatever situation we find ourselves in.
Romans
The rewards, of our high calling, whatever field, and wherever in
the field God has chosen to call us into, it will bring us great rewards. Many
receive those rewards here on earth, as well as in heaven, and each one of us,
if we endure, we will receive the highest prize of all, that
is to be one of those precious saints that have their home with God.
The Prize of the High Calling; The first part of the
prize and the best part, and that is being in God's presence here on earth, and
also then in glory with our God, our Heavenly Father, with those who have gone
through the Fire, that is bringing us with them, to the eternal heavenly place
where we will never experience sorrow again.
A place where we are all honest with each other, what a prize to
aim for, honesty, integrity, and all those fruits that will continue in heaven
that has begun in us here.
I am sure each one of us will enter the gates with praise as we
leave this world for the one so much better.
Psalm 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his
courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
We can do all of this now, entering into our Heavenly Father’s
courts with praise,
Philippians 3:7 But what things were gain
to me, those I counted loss for
There is a song with the words in it; "I am desperate for
you" and "I am lost without you".
Psalm 130 says Out of the deep, the very deep depths of me,
I have cried out to You, O Lord.
There is a story that came through on the Internet; A young man took a journey to visit a guru, and the young
man said to the guru, I have come here to find God. Immediately the guru jumped
up and grabbed the young man by the collar of his shirt, and pulled him down
into the river, and held his head down under the water for as long as he dared
to do so. Pulling the young man up again, and letting him catch his breath, he
asked the young man what he wanted most while he was under the water, and the
young man replied; air! The guru then said; when you want God as much as you
wanted air, then come back to me.
If only each one of us wanted God as much as we want those things
of this world, how close to God we would become.
Mat
How often do we seek every thing else and fit God into the time and
finances that is left over.
The Price and The Prize of the High Calling comes when
putting God first, and if we do put God first, then all those things we want
and need, will be, not might be, but will be, added unto us.
Love and Shalom,
