I am Worthy of His Calling (because He is worthy)

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Episode 74 I am Worthy of His Calling (because He is worthy)

Give me a minute more human, to witness why this is mind-blowing to me...

I can intellectually check all the boxes Maclaren lays out. That I am unworthy, that I can commit to not striving to be worthy as if by my own power, that I can accept my life on God’s terms – that it is all a gift from Him, and that I can desire it, I can give my free will to Him every day.

But doing it requires His Spirit in my every thought and action, if I live by the premise that I am unworthy.

The world is such a distraction and people are rejecting the Gospel all along my path. Rejection is translated in verse 46 as to thrust away from one’s self, to drive away from one’s self. So Paul is defining rejection as forceful intent to move away from God and toward one’s self.

So, as I am bringing the Gospel closer to someone, that person may be using all intent to drive it away.

This gives me a deeper resolve and urgency in my response to those who have judged themselves unworthy of eternal life by their own rejection of the Gospel.

That I am matching my intensity for accepting and sharing the Gospel to the intensity with which so many are pushing it away. The Gospel is my witness. That I be bold like Paul.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

“May God make you worthy of his calling and fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power”.