Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Called

We are called to a life that is free. You are free to pursue your passions and desires. God has placed them inside of you for that reason - you have been called to act them out! The best way to act out your calling is to simply love others. If you can be kind and simply love others, your calling and the way to live it out, act it out, becomes clear.

It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows. For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
Galatians 5:13-15
What you are called to, your passion and your desires, become truly evident when we follow the simple sentence that sums up God's word! However, if we are going to be angry, frustrated, focus on what makes us upset, and make decisions to annihilate and resent other people, our desire will be hidden from us! We find freedom in the service and loving of others. We find freedom in giving our lives away for the good of others. We find freedom in loving others just like we would like to be loved.
We find a prison in any attempt to control, hate, be angry, frustrated and push others out of our lives. We take a freedom and we make it null and void because we refuse to act on the law of God to love others. Our anger, our resentment, our unforgiveness, our worry keeps the desires and passion God has given us hidden from our view. We feel annihilated ourselves, disconnect, and depressed.
Simply love today. If you want to find your calling and you want to know what your desires and passions are that God has given you then just love others. See if clarity does not come upon your eyes and your mind. See if what God has for you becomes so clear that there is no way to resist the calling. Live this today (it is one of my favorite quotes):
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
Namaste'

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