March 31, 2025

Scripture Of The Day

Let every man abide in the….calling wherein he was called. I Corinthians 7:20

Excerpts from Jentezen Franklin

When Ed went to be with the Lord, God spoke three things to me. One of those things was to finish what I had started.” I was not sure exactly what that meant. I certainly wanted to finish my race here on this earth. However, I also took that to mean that I should finish what my husband started—for example, this blog and a daily devotional. Now, I will confess that I am not the writer he was. I feel my calling is to speak. My situation made me think of Peter and Paul. After Pentecost, Peter preached, and 3000 people were saved! But when Paul preached, a guy nodded off and fell out of a window and broke his neck. That does not sound very encouraging! Paul admitted that preaching was not his chief calling: “I came to you . . timid and trembling. . . . my message and my preaching were very plain.” Even though Paul was not the greatest speaker, God anointed and empowered him to raise the man from the dead after he fell out of the window.

What Paul lacked as a preacher, he more than made up for as a writer. His pen changed the world. He wrote most of the New Testament. He was responsible for more New Testament doctrine than those who spent all their waking hours with Jesus. Paul didn’t need to preach; he wrote the inspired Word that enabled others to do it. As I develop my chief calling, I will also be available to the Lord to do whatever he empowers me to do.

My question to you is this: . . . are you devoting yourself to your chief calling? Are you available to God? I encourage you today to pray, and God will show you your chief calling. Paul left an incredible legacy. And it was all because one man devoted himself to his calling.