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\nEphesians 4:1-6<\/b><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,\u00a0endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.\u00a0There is<\/i>\u00a0one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;\u00a0one Lord, one faith, one baptism;\u00a0one God and Father of all, who\u00a0is<\/i>\u00a0above all, and through all, and in you\u00a0all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
As Christians, we are to walk worthy of the calling we have received. That means we should remember we are followers of Jesus and there are some things we are to avoid, some thoughts we should reject, and some habits we ought to change. They aren\u2019t healthy for us or the body of Christ. We don\u2019t want to violate our calling. Instead, we should have our Christlike character on full display. Ask the Lord for wisdom in evaluating your habits and knowing how to walk worthy of the calling you have received. (Dr. Jeremiah)<\/p>\n
To say that character has nothing to do with blessedness is untrue, both to conscience and to the Christian revelation; and however we trace all things to grace, we must also remember that we get what we have fitted ourselves for. There is a certain vocation to which a Christian man is bound to make his life correspond, and his conduct should be in some measure worthy of the ideal that is set before it. Now, we shall best understand what is involved in such worthiness if we make clear to ourselves what the Apostle means by this \u2018calling\u2019 to which he appeals as containing in itself a standard to which our lives are to be conformed. God reveals Himself in any fashion, and by any medium, to a man, the man fails to understand the deepest meaning of the revelation unless his purged ear hears in it the great voice saying it.<\/p>\n
For in Jesus Christ we see the possibilities of humanity realised, and we have the pattern of what we ought to be, and are called thereby to be.<\/p>\n
Now, if that is the call, if the life of Christ is that to which we are summoned, and the death of Christ is that by which we are inclined to obey the summons, and the Spirit of Christ is that by which we are enabled to do so, what sort of a life will be worthy of these? Well, the context supplies part of the answer. \u2018I beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation … with all meekness and lowliness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.\u2019 That is one side of the vocation, and the life that is worthy of it will be a life emancipated from the meanness of selfishness, and delivered from the tumidities of pride and arrogance, and changed into the sweetness of gentleness and the royalties of love.<\/p>\n
\u2018Fruitful in every good work\u2019-a many-sided fruitfulness, an encyclopaediacal beneficent activity, covering all the ground of possible excellence; and that is not all; \u2018increasing in the knowledge of God,\u2019-a life of progressive acquaintance with Him; and that is not all:-\u2019strengthened with all might unto all patience and long-suffering\u2019; nor is that all, for the crown of the whole is \u2018giving thanks unto the Father.\u2019 So, then, \u2018ye see your calling, brethren.\u2019 A life that is \u2018worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called\u2019 is a life that conforms to the divine will, that is \u2018fruitful in all good,\u2019 that is progressive in its acquaintance with God, that is strengthened for all patience and long-suffering, and that in everything is thankful to Him. That is what we are summoned to be.<\/p>\n
The more nearly we come to realise the purpose of our calling, the more \u2018worthy\u2019 of it we are, the deeper will be our consciousness of our unworthiness. The more we approximate to the ideal, and come closer up to it, and so see its features the better, the more we shall feel how unlike we are to it. The law for Christian progress is that the sense of unworthiness increases in the precise degree in which the worthiness increases. The same man that said, \u2018Of whom {sinners} I am chief,\u2019 said to the same reader, \u2018I have kept the faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.\u2019 And so the two things are not contradictory but complementary. On the one side \u2018worthy\u2019 has nothing to do with the outflow of Christ\u2019s love to us; on the other side we are to \u2018walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called.\u2019 (MacLaren)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ephesians 4:1-6\u00a0 \u00a0I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,\u00a0endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.\u00a0There is\u00a0one body and one Spirit, just … Continue reading ““Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194155,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194152\/revisions\/194155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}