FAITH CAPSULE: The calling of God cannot progress without His word of direction.

Jeremiah 1, Acts 9:1-9

With direction man will be guided and not respond like a headless chicken in wrong direction.
Have you been called by God or called by man?
God is a God of order and will not call you without giving you direction.
Are you experiencing challenges in your calling? Often times, challenges are engendered when there is a miss in hearing or following God’s.
Among the called ones were Jeremiah and Paul the apostle. Jeremiah and Paul’s calling was not fueled by emotion or past evil agendas.
Is your self-acclaimed calling fueled by emotion? It is true that no vehicle can progress in journey without gasoline so is the calling of God cannot progress without His word of direction. Whenever there is an attempt to progress without God’s direction termination will have a place instead of progress.
The calling of Jeremiah and Paul was fueled with obedience to God’s direction.
When God called Jeremiah, God did not consider emotion of hindrance to stop Jeremiah. At the calling of Jeremiah’s emotion of his youth made God’s response, “…Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you…” (Jeremiah 1:7-8) The direction of God did not stop fueling Jeremiah and that made Jeremiah’s call of assignment to be well established.
Paul’s calling was different by virtue of his background. He was on his way against Jesus and the bible recorded, “Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest ² and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.” (Acts 9:1-2) When He called Paul, it was with the light of God that founded Paul. The light sought him out on his way to commit more crimes against the Lord. Paul could not hide (because of his past evil) to allow hindrance for his direction that was a fuel of progress to divine assignment. Paul did not miss but received direction by stating in Acts 22:10, “So I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Arise and go into Damascus and there you will be told all things which are appointed for you to do.’”
From where you are now it is not too late for you to ask and get back into a right direction. Do not allow emotion or past wicked agenda cut you off from God’s divine assignment for your life.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you and not miss God’s direction to your divine assignment.