BOTH SIDES OF YOUR CALLING

BOTH SIDES OF YOUR CALLING Every decision comes with a two edged sword, sometimes referred to as pro and con, positive and negative side, or up and down side. Never deciding is all negative, con and down. "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him" Hebrews 2:3 (KJV) Never making a complete decision is also completely negative, unproductive and fill with misery.  "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." James 1:8 (KJV) After you have made up your mind to follow Me, willingly leaving all and dying to self and taking up your cross, you still have a continual decision to make. Shall I fulfill my calling today or not? Your calling is constant. I place it in your heart and it never leaves you. However just like your salvation you can neglect it. Neglecting your calling has some real down sides that you must consider. "When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man , thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand." Ezekiel 33:8 (KJV)   Every calling is some how related to building lives. Every project must be connected to the life of a soul or it is not a kingdom calling. If it does not benefit another human being, other that yourself, it is not My calling. Every time you neglect your calling, someone suffers, that's the plain and simple negative to all callings. Every day you neglect to feed the hungry somebody dies. Every moment you live for self, somebody suffers. When you have a calling you have a new motto, My luxury is another mans suffering. Why should you have two, when there is someone else with none? "But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" 1 John 3:17 (KJV) Please do not come back with the guilt and condemnation escape.  Nor am I  speaking of taking care of the lazy that will not work. These are the plain facts. If a man is drowning and you don't try to save him, he dies. Is it your fault? Before you answer, if the drowning person were your child, and a passerby did not stop to save him, is it his fault you child died? When you take up the cross of your calling, everything in your life from that point is related to your calling.  There are no vacations away from your calling. A lifeguard is a lifeguard on or off duty. If a person is drowning and the lifeguard says I am off duty, he is no lifeguard. Your calling is not a job, it is your life, your passion, your cross, your joy and your tears all in one. "And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?" Genesis 4:9 Yes you are your brothers keeper, because you are one body.  Your calling will consume you, without destroying you. The burning bush is the symbol of a calling. It constantly burns, but is never consumed by the passionate fire. Energy seems endless when you operate in your calling. Wisdom and knowledge are abundant and joy is always deep within, because you are doing what I designed you to do.   Neglecting you calling brings the negative side of the sword. Friends, neighbors and strangers all suffer while you do what you flesh dictates. You say, "But God wants Me to have fun", wrong! Fun is flesh, but joy is the reward for following Me. There is eternal laughter in the kingdom, but it's because everyone is laughing and enjoying the kingdom. As long as there is one left outside, cold and hungry, My Spirit will not let the called one, join the party. "How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? [13] And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep , than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. [14] Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish." Matthew 18:12-14 (KJV) Now, you know why many are called but few are chosen. If you take up the cross of your calling you are chosen, and a life of passion begins, with joy rewarding each morning. If you neglect or refuse you calling you are of all men most miserable, as happiness is always temporary and as you  travel in circles, returning to the same failures over and over. "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints," Ephesians 1:18 (KJV)     "For many are called (invited and summoned), but few are chosen." Matthew 22:14 (AMP) The joy is set before you, if you will take up your cross and follow Me in your calling. Today you can decide to enter the joy of your Lord.