Sunday, January 08, 2012

God’s Calls

Last August I commented on Rick Perry’s stating that he would consider being elected POTUS a blessing in a post titled Not Quite Rhetorical Modesty commenting as follows.

Only an individual desiring power would consider becoming president of the United States a blessing, and thus Perry’s statement is hardly rhetorical modesty.

Moses, Jonah, and even Christ himself would rather have not had to shoulder the tasks which God appointed to them, and I hardly think they considered their roles as leaders in their appointed tasks a blessing.

Donald Sensing has addressed the subject of God’s calls in a rather more reflective manner than I did, after reading a piece at Real Clear Religion titled A Divine Call Won’t Get You Votes.  His post is titled God’s plan just fell apart, I guess and it’s worth reading, if only for point number 3.

3. God’s call almost never corresponds, even remotely, with what you want to do. Hence, any specific desire that exists, however slightly, in your heart that a subsequent divine call seems so wonderfully to endorse is almost absolutely not the voice of God but of the Deceiver. God’s will is rarely appealing, at first.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/08 at 11:48 AM
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