Finishing Well (7 of 7)
Series: Unwavering
Joey Rodgers
2 Kings 2:1-16
Six weeks ago, we launched into a series in the life of Elijah to learn about God's calling on our lives. I hope you've been enlightened/encouraged in how God is working in your life in fulfilling His calling in you.
Yet the simple truth is, most of us struggle to decipher God's will much less participate in it. We often times can't see the forest for the trees b/c we tend to focus on the wrong things to try to determine our ''calling.''
It reminds me of a story about a pastor who received a call from a church who offered him a salary 4x what he was receiving at his current church. Being a devout man, he took time to pray about the decision to discern if it was what God wanted him to do. One day a friend saw the pastor's son on the street and asked, ''Do you know what your dad's going to do?'' The boy replied, ''Well, Dad's praying; but Mom's packing!'' If only the call of God was so clear, but it's not always!
As we've watched God move in/thru Elijah, we've seen how before God releases us for public service, He'll often take us into private (to our KR) to prune and prepare us for service. Then to make sure we've learned our lessons, He'll take us to our Zarephath to test us to see if those lessons have taken root - and if they have, He'll move us from the private back into the public to use us for His glory.
As we conclude our series, I want to consider one final aspect of God's calling - finishing well. And there are (2) critical things to finishing well: (1) Sprinting thru the finish-line; and (2) Handing off the baton of faith to the next generation - and Elijah did both.
When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah/Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. Elijah said to Elisha, ''Stay here; the Lord has sent me to Bethel.'' But Elisha said, ''As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.'' So, they went down to Bethel ...
Series: Unwavering
Joey Rodgers
2 Kings 2:1-16
Six weeks ago, we launched into a series in the life of Elijah to learn about God's calling on our lives. I hope you've been enlightened/encouraged in how God is working in your life in fulfilling His calling in you.
Yet the simple truth is, most of us struggle to decipher God's will much less participate in it. We often times can't see the forest for the trees b/c we tend to focus on the wrong things to try to determine our ''calling.''
It reminds me of a story about a pastor who received a call from a church who offered him a salary 4x what he was receiving at his current church. Being a devout man, he took time to pray about the decision to discern if it was what God wanted him to do. One day a friend saw the pastor's son on the street and asked, ''Do you know what your dad's going to do?'' The boy replied, ''Well, Dad's praying; but Mom's packing!'' If only the call of God was so clear, but it's not always!
As we've watched God move in/thru Elijah, we've seen how before God releases us for public service, He'll often take us into private (to our KR) to prune and prepare us for service. Then to make sure we've learned our lessons, He'll take us to our Zarephath to test us to see if those lessons have taken root - and if they have, He'll move us from the private back into the public to use us for His glory.
As we conclude our series, I want to consider one final aspect of God's calling - finishing well. And there are (2) critical things to finishing well: (1) Sprinting thru the finish-line; and (2) Handing off the baton of faith to the next generation - and Elijah did both.
When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah/Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. Elijah said to Elisha, ''Stay here; the Lord has sent me to Bethel.'' But Elisha said, ''As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.'' So, they went down to Bethel ...
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