A Call to Discipleship
I would like to start this article by asking one simple question. Why did you join a triad? Let’s be very specific, and see if we can all come up with an answer.
I hope the following prayer or a similar one will become a daily part of your life.
Lord I have joined this triad because I want to follow you. But I need your help. Empower me to live the life you have called me to live.
My personal prayer for each of you weekly is that each time you meet; you will be able to see, hear and understand the working of God through the Holy Spirit and the power that comes from His Word.
I want us to all have fun, enjoy each other, and feel free to participate etc. But I also want the power of the Holy Spirit to come forth and work in our lives, in a way that none of us have ever seen or felt it before.
Each week, I try to come prepared with at least one little nugget that God has specifically spoken to me about in the reading. I try to garner a little information out of each of the daily readings either from Ogden or from the Word that I can bring out for illustrations and conversation. So here are a couple of thoughts that God has been speaking to me about this week.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because servants do not know their master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit
John 15:14-16
If anyone wants to come with me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it. Luke 9:23, 24.
We must learn to respond: Jesus, I want to follow you. That is why I am a member of a triad. But this sometimes sounds too costly. I am not sure I am up to the task. I know that you are the one who will work in me to cause me to want to obey your will and then help me do it. Please help me. Teach me what you mean by denying myself and taking up my cross daily and following you. I want to follow you.
I know that not everyone who met Him chose to follow. Not all are willing to pay the price. Jesus described it as a narrow way, and a difficult road that few really find.
So remember. God has not called you to do or be anything that He will not also enable you to be or do in order to fulfill His purpose. Ask Him to make clear His calling in your life.
Dock Caton 05/25/2011
The posting of "A Call to Disciplship", of 05/25/2011 is another of the bi-weekly writings that go to the men at our Church. My prayer is that all who read it may be blessed from God's Word
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