FAITH CAPSULE:The challenges in your calling will make you and will not break you.

Jeremiah 1

Many giants in the hand of God sailed through in the center of their divine assignment while many could not sail through. Today, many are answering and maintaining their position in the center of their divine assignment while many are falling and not maintaining their calling. Having started right and later succumbing and falling in doing the work of God is not always evident to the fact that they are not called of God. The bottom line of it all is that God is in total control and nothing under Heaven passes by Him without His knowing. Have you been called and now face tough challenges? It is good to rest assure that your challenges will not break you. Stay on the truthfulness of God’s Word and you shall overcome. In God’s calling, challenging times will come, but when we remain faithful we shall not fall but shall remain standing. When God called Jeremiah to the center of his divine assignment, it was with words of encouragement over challenges that were ahead for Jeremiah. God spoke to him, “Therefore prepare yourself and arise, And speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed before their faces, Lest I dismay you before them.” (Jeremiah 1:17) Whenever He calls you, He will back you up if you do not fail to back out of His Word. Backing out of His calling will definitely lead to the falling of the called. God also warned Jeremiah stating, “’They will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you,’ says the LORD, ’to deliver you.’” (Jeremiah 1:19) God will not call and fail to back His called. Failure, however, happens when the called fail to maintain faith in God. The same way God gave His assurance to Jeremiah, He also gave to Ezekiel. He spoke to Ezekiel, “You shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious. But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house…” (Ezekiel 2:7-8) Are you doing just as He sent you? It is a sin to violate God’s word of command and God will not overlook sin. In your calling, if you are going by your own word, disobedience has taken control and it could lead to self-termination. There is hardly any that do not face challenges among the called ones. The Bible recorded about Jesus in Hebrews 5:8, “though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.” In God’s calling, there is no way out to avoid challenges. The challenges in your calling will make you and will not break you.

Prayer for today: Enable me O Lord in the course of my calling that I may not fail You.