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Devotional: May 19th

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A WORTHY CALLING

By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another. - John 13:35

Men that are called to high functions prepare themselves therefore. If you knew that you were going away to Australia in six months, would you not be beginning to get your outfit ready? You Christian men profess to believe that you have been called to a condition in which you will absolutely obey God’s will, and be the loyal subjects of His Kingdom, and in which you will partake of God’s glory. Well then, obey His will here, and let some scattered sparklets of that uncreated light that is one day going to flood your soul be upon your face to-day. Do not go and cut your lives into two halves, one of them all contradictory to that which you expect in the other, but bring a harmony between the present, in all its weakness and sinfulness, and that great hope and certain destiny that blazes on the horizon of your hope, as the joyful state to which you have been invited. "Walk worthy of the calling to which you are called." That same thought of the destiny should feed our hope, and make us live under its continual inspiration. A walk worthy of such a calling and such a Caller should know no despondency, nor any weary, heartless lingering, as with tired feet on a hard road. Brave good cheer, undimmed energy, a noble contempt of obstacles, a confidence in our final attainment of that purity and glory which is not depressed by consciousness of present failure, - these are plainly the characteristics which ought to mark the advance of the men in whose ears such a summons from such lips rings as their marching orders. And a walk worthy of our calling will turn away from earthly things. If you believe that God has summoned you to His Kingdom and glory, surely, surely, that should deaden in your heart the love and the care for the trifles that lie by the wayside! Surely, surely, if that great Voice is inviting, and that merciful Hand is beckoning you into the light, and showing you what you may possess there, it is not walking according to that summons if you go with your eyes fixed upon the trifles at your feet, and your whole heart absorbed in this present fleeting world! Unworldliness, in its best and purest fashion, - by which I mean not only a contempt for material wealth and all that it brings, but the setting loose by everything that is beneath the stars, - unworldliness is the only walk that is " worthy of the calling wherewith ye are called."

And if you hear that voice ringing like a trumpet call, or a commander’s shout on the battlefield, into your ears, ever to stimulate you, to rebuke your lagging indifference; if you are ever conscious in your inmost hearts of the summons to His Kingdom and glory, then, no doubt, by a walk worthy of it, you will make your calling sure; and there shall "an entrance be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom."

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