Learning to be the Light...Happy Birthday !

Aye its another birthday for me...although for the vast majority of the world its just another day...and as I have spoken often each day is the day the Lord has made another chance, opportunity and choice to begin again...some days are like Okay lets go back to Genesis 1:1...some days Revelation 20:20-21...today is one of those days we all have I believe...where the Spirit reminds me to go to the Word and in a small verse in the signing off part of the goodbyes in Colossians ...

“And, oh, yes, tell Archippus, “Do your best in the job you received from the Master. Do your very best." (Colossians 4:17).

Have you ever been in a place where the phone kept ringing and nobody answered it? In moments like that it seems everybody is busy with something else, assuming that somebody else will answer the call. But nobody does. After awhile it can get to be quite annoying. There is something irritating about an unanswered call.

Over the years I have noticed a similar thing in my life and the lives of many people – a call that is not being answered. A call from God. Busy with so many other things, and sure that the call is for someone else, so many of us lose ourselves in trivial desires and moments and miss, or ignore, or choose not to answer the opportunity to answer the call of God on their lives.

One of the greatest fears we all face is having lived a meaningless life; a life that didn’t matter; a life that made no difference. It is a thought that haunts even the most "accomplished" of individuals.

Indeed, it is unsettling to get to...or nearer the end of... one’s life, cast a cautious glance back over time and discover what has been suspected all along, “My life didn’t matter!” Each of us long to know that our lives counted; that we accomplished what we were put on this earth to do. We want to maximize every opportunity, seize the day, and live life to its fullest...but do we?  ...and How?

Yes it's an odd contradiction, that no matter what I have done..indeed all of us,  that I still wonder about and seek... unrealized potential. Many times I have ( and perhaps most of us) settle for far less than we are capable of being, and of doing. On the one hand we want our lives to count; on the other hand, we seem far too willing to become pushed aside into mediocrity. As a fav song shouts to me "sometimes I fall so easily to the ruler of this world..."  Our only hope is to answer the call of God upon our lives.

Abraham traveling into the unknown, Joseph remaining faithful in Egypt, Moses crossing the Red Sea, Joshua conquering the Promised Land, David slaying a Giant and becoming a King, Isaiah telling his visions, Zechariah telling his dreams, Daniel in the Lion’s den, Nehemiah rebuilding the Walls, Zerubbabel rebuilding the Temple, Simon Peter leaving his fishing nets, Paul preaching the Gospel, John writing the Revelation ~ each one answered the call. They heard God’s voice and followed Him with trusting hearts...

And yes I know the danger of comparing ourselves to others be it family friends or such historical heroes as these...

And now it’s our turn.  Instead of names  put your name or simply "me" in those places in the previous paragraph that have names and think on what it says about and to you.  At one place I read "Me crossing the Red Sea of unbelief..."

Answer the call…… and Please ...Just Ask Him!  Happy New Birth Day to you all