I have a calling
Finish, then, thy new creation,
Pure and spotless let us be. Charles Wesley
Read 2 Peter 1:3—4
I have a calling. I am called to come. This is a Godly voice calling me. It is full of promise. As I respond to this voice I will be more truly myself. There is glory and Godliness in this voice. It is very, very beautiful. That is, I will be beautified. Really beautified. I will participate in the divine nature. The one who calls me introduces himself: he is calling me to know him. To be with him. As though he wants to do this! As though he just wants me.
Father, you sent your Son to call men and women and children and me. You poured out your Spirit to awaken us to your call, so that I, too, can hear. I hear Jesus. I hear him say my name. This is a powerful voice I hear. It has all the power of eternity. No other voice has such authority that it can determine who I am forever. When I hear my name on the tongue of Jesus I know that I am cherished, and have been from before my birth; that I have been claimed, and have been by my Saviour’s death; that I am not the disappointing thing that I have made of myself, rather, that I am quite gloriously and incredibly being called into a kingdom that only ever gets better.