A higher call...

Sunday, September 30, 2008

Called to an overmastering relationship. Called to a relationship that will manage all decisions in my life; that will lead my life through uncertain paths, but to a certain destiny. God has strange ways to speak to us, always timely, always when we need Him it the most.

Yesterday night I struggled with God asking Him for direction, for a word to my life. He is Faithful and His promise real… call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things that you do not know. The place and moment could not be better, since I am on a mission trip, half of the world away in Damascus, one of the oldest cities in the world where pages of the Bible were written and where one of the most amazing stories of transformation took place. It was at the ‘road to Damascus’ where Saul of Tarsus had an encounter an a vision that transformed his life and made of him a powerful instrument that transform the world.

What I received was not just a random message, but the confirmation and affirmation of God’s voice, spoken to me during the last 2 years: “Now get up and stand of your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a minister and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them form darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so they may receive forgiveness of sins and place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”

I don’t consider that I deserve this, I don’t think I’m worth of it, I know I’m not capable to do this… but this is not about me, it’s about the Master’s will, it’s about the Master’s plan, the Master’s desire. I know there is only one think I have to pursue every day or my life… one focus, one purpose, one goal: obedience to my Master. I was not called to a cause, a doctrine, or a church. I was called to a person, called to follow and obey Him. If He has placed a vision… I must follow. Help me Lord to be obedient to the vision.