Romans 11:29 tells us that the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. To put this scripture into perspective we must understand what the Apostle Paul wanted to communicate. Chapter 11 talks about the opportunity provided to the Gentiles to receive the hope of salvation after Israel rejected the gospel. As Paul stresses the example of wild branches being grafted into the tree and having the opportunity to bloom, he also strongly emphasizes that the original branches are still available to be grafted back in as well and one day they will indeed! Paul believed that the returning of the children of Israel will lead the homecoming of all to God!
As Paul describes this great day and this great time, He makes that comment that the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. What does that mean in this context of telling all that Israel will again fully return to God? He means that when God says something, when He makes a decree, when He issues a gift and a calling, He does not take it back. God called the Children of Israel and He has not rescinded that calling. God has gifted and called us and He has not taken any of those gifts or any of that calling back.
Far to many of us are walking around with the precious gifts and calling of God all on and over our lives yet we are acting bewildered about what we should be doing with them. Frankly some of us act like we never even received God's gifts and/or calling or maybe we just don't want other people to know. God's gifts and calling are not a secret. If you've been called you know you've been set aside, set apart, consecrated and called. You can deny it all you want, but at the end of the day you know that you know that you know and others know it to because the anointing cannot be denied. Most of the time people feel the anointing of your gifts and your calling and they are simply waiting for you to acknowledge it. That's the trigger, key and linchpin that releases the activation of the gift and the calling.
We have to get in gear and respect the gifts and calling of God on our lives. God has graced us with what we need to enjoy an abundant life. God has told us that above all things He wants us to prosper and be in good health even as our very soul prospers. To aid us in that prosperous living He has made us all after His likeness and in His image by giving us creativity and gifting. These gifts and the calling having nothing to do with our intellect so our intellect cannot comprehend it. We cannot unlock our gifts with our brain power. We cannot make the gift and the calling work by sitting around thinking about it for days, months weeks and years. In order for the gifts to begin to work we must first acknowledge the gifts and the calling and that their origin is God. In order to allow the gifts to work for us, we must give God glory for the gifts and calling and be determined that God get all the glory from the use of the gifts and the calling. We must acknowledge God in all our ways and admit that He knows what's best for us and that in order for us to experience that best He gave us the gift that would work on our behalf. Then we must work the gift and accept the calling.
God makes no mistakes and everyone single life has a gift. It may take many years before we discover our gifts. That passing of time doesn't make your gift void or unusable. As soon as we acknowledge the gifts and that God is the giver we put ourselves into the position for the gifts to open up abundant living opportunities for us. Those opportunities may not come easily and they may seem like trials, hardships and tough times, but remember that all things work together for the good of them that love the Lord and who are the called according to His purpose. Work your gifts and accept your calling and see what God will do for you! There's no escaping His manifold blessings when you obey!
Today make it up in your mind to respect God's gifts and calling on your life. Make it up in your mind to lean not to your own understanding, but to acknowledge God in all your ways. Trust Him and trust that life's circumstances and this journey will provide opportunity for your gifts to be used. Relinquish your resistance and realize that your gifts and your calling will make room for you and bring you into the presence of great men because God said so. He has graced us with creativity. He has made us after His image and likeness. You have purpose. You have divine destiny and it is within our grasp. Today is the day that we respect what God has put in us and give it back to Him in order to guide others to Him and to give Him all the glory.
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