Heb 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
That heavenly calling is never negative, never neutral, never passive, but always positive. You may not have very much in your daily life to make the calling seem positive.
It may be you go
to business in the morning and fulfill your daily work, the trivial
round, the common task, as we say, with very little variety entering
into it. It is the same round day after day, week after week, month
after month; the same people, the same surroundings, the same activities
very largely.
Only on the rarest occasion does something especially
interesting come into the daily course. It would be so easy in a
situation like that to say: "Well, in my sphere of life there is not
much of the glamor of a heavenly calling! My work is plain and simple. I
have just to get on with it every day, and I see very little else
beyond it." Remember that at all times, in all circumstances, the calling is positive.
Every day will provide some opportunity for you to
learn spiritual ascendancy; some occasion for you to bring in the value
of your relationship with the Lord; to put to the test the resources
which you have in Christ; to grow in grace; to know victories.
How do
you know but that in that very uninteresting, perhaps unpromising sphere
of life you are on test on some of those great matters, such as faith,
patience, or patient endurance?
It would be interesting to know exactly
what the throne of the Lord is made of. When we come to that throne, I
wonder whether we shall find a throne of gold in a literal sense, or
whether we shall find it made up of many things?
When we come to analyze
the throne we may find that it is made up of patience, faith,
endurance, and all such moral elements, and that these elements
constitute the power by which He governs.
It is sharing the patience of
Jesus Christ which is sharing the throne. There is something mighty in
the ultimate outworking of the patience of Jesus, the faith of Jesus
Christ, the endurance. These are the constituents of His throne. He is
working throne elements into us now in the drab, uninteresting life day
by day.
You may be on test for the throne.
There may be bound up with
the least interesting course of life some very, very real intention of
the Lord.
Let us remember that the heavenly calling is always positive,
in all circumstances, in all places. We are on test for the throne, as
to whether it shall function through us both here and hereafter.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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