Call to me and I will answer you. I will tell to you things great beyond reach of your knowledge. – Jeremiah 33:3
During our previous RYC last March, in the course of the first session, we were asked to write in a card the questions that we would like to ask the Lord. One of the questions that I wrote was “Why do You keep calling me despite all my brokenness, my flaws, and my imperfections?”
Matthew 7:7 “Ask and it will be given to you…” I called and He answered.
I just came from the recently concluded Eastern MV SHouT. It was truly such a blessed SHouT. One particular messaged that kept hitting me all throughout the SHouT is taken from John 14:6, Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
I am THE WAY.
What I saw during the worship on Wednesday evening is an image of a glowing arrow pointing upward. An arrow is normally used to point into a direction or to guide. Jesus is the way, the only way to the Lord. And I believe this is our call, to be the way, with our lives pointing to God. We are called to point people to Christ, as Christ pointed us to the Father.
Lead me Lord, lead me by the hand
And help me face the rising sun
Comfort me through all the pain
That life may bring
There’s no other hope
That I can lean upon
Lead me Lord
Lead me all my life
I am THE TRUTH.
Eyes. A lot of people say that our eyes are the mirror of our souls. Our eyes speak the truth, and like our eyes and Jesus Christ, we are called to be the truth. We are called to be His eyes in this world. We are called to be His living testimonies in this world; to be the truth to the world.
Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. I want to see You
Let us not be interested in people seeing us and desire far more than people will see Him in us.
I am THE LIFE.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and game himself to me. – Galatians 2:20
God is calling us to live the life that Jesus lived, to live according to His plan. It may seem hard and impossible, but He wants us to be not afraid, for He is with us. Christ lives in us.
Our lives are just like heart rates. In order for us to be alive, we need to experience those ups and downs. We can’t just be stagnant (or in a pulse case, a straight line) because when that happens, we really are not living. Our victories and struggles our necessary for us to live fully; necessary for us to fulfill our mission. We get inspired by our victories, and we learn from our struggles. No one in this world is abstained from sufferings. In fact, even Christ suffered. He was condemned, scourged, beaten, and crucified. But He endured it, because He knows that after all that, He can live again, not the life that He wants, but the life the God wants Him to have. As Philippians 1:21 says, “To live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Our mission is never easy, but it is in difficulties that the joy comes real, the life of joy.
Jesus is the life. We are called to live a life according to His. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. – John 14:3
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God is calling us to a greater mission. He is calling us to be living testimonies of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. He wants us to be the same: to be the way, the truth and the life. He wants us to be that arrow to others. He wants us to show the truth to the world by living like the truth Himself, Jesus Christ. He wants us to be the life to others; to be part of victories and brokenness, to be part of hope, to be the heartbeat of the mission.
Why does He kept calling me? Kept calling us? The answer is exactly this.
Despite all our brokenness, failures, struggles, and flaws, we are called by name into this mission. Our personal missions started the moment we were born. Let us be the way, the truth, and the life of the world. He wants us to take on and fully live out this mission, the mission that Christ started.
Be not afraid, I go before you always. Come follow Me and I’ll give you rest.
He answered our call; let us answer His.
However, consider my life worth nothing to me, my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus Christ has given me; the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. – Acts 20:24
Lord, let Your words be my words, and Your will be my will. Allow me to live the life that Christ lived. Amen.