The question must be addressed, “how do we, as individuals and local assemblies, work together to fulfill this calling of the universal Church?” Of course, Christ has seen fit to equip His bride for this very work. In perfect wisdom, God has ordained offices and roles for governing and leading His church. However, God has also instituted other roles, within different spheres of authority. All of these, ideally, are to work together, unified under Christ, to carry out that great wartime initiative of the Great Commission, with one chief end in mind—subdue creation, bringing it under Christ’s authority, so we might know Him, enjoy Him, and glorify Him forever.
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In the last entry of this series we took the first big step in identifying the personal calling and equipping of God. We took care to ask, and answer, the question of the meaning of life itself—and only in about 2000 words, eat your heart out Plato! That is quite an achievement if you ask me, however we are only getting started. Last time we concluded that in order to know what God has called you to, personally and specifically, you must know and do what God has called all men everywhere to do; glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. However, you cannot hope but miserably fail in that first task if you yet remain in your sin. To begin to know what God has called you to do for Him in His Kingdom you must be born again, repent, and be washed in the blood of Jesus.
We live in strange days. Uncertain times might be a good way of putting it. Uncertain in the sense that we are uncertain what it will take to regain a certain sense of normality, or if we will ever certainly return to what was once called normal. Uncertain in my mind, whether a return to what was normal is something we should even desire. These times are not, however, uncertain in the mind of God. For Christ remains seated on the throne.
I began my morning with prayer. My aim was especially that of labor; intercessory prayer, as opposed to the prayer of devotion and rest in Christ Jesus. I hoped to begin my day working in the presence of God, pleading for His favor and His hand. I prayed for myself, my wife, my brothers and sisters in Haiti. As I got to Haiti, as usual, I asked God the Father to have mercy on Haiti, leading to repentance in Jesus’ name and the trampling of the idols of vodou in that island under the feet of King Jesus. Until that time, I asked also for God to grant a measure of peace, so much that the gospel of the Lord Jesus would not be hindered, and that we may return to Haiti safely that we may take up our labor there. I asked Christ Jesus to protect His bride and to shield her from suffering in that place amid the chaos, especially in the Capital. Then my heart burned. I asked this next: