Day 7 - Closer and Closer

Perhaps surprisingly, it is not your primary aim and object as a Christian to serve the poor, or the sick, or the disadvantaged. Neither is it your direct aim to convert the world through your evangelism or to hasten world peace through protest or through hard labour.

It is not even your direct objective to portray Christ in the world or to manage buildings or to care pastorally for the flock, to attend church regularly or to deepen your theological understanding.

But it Most certainly is your commanded duty to throw all your energies into coming closer, to deepen your personal communion with God. Only then, lost in the oneness afforded by Calvary, can you freely allow God to do any or all of the other things through you, and of his own accord.

You may already be busy with one or more of these holy activities but you should not fall into the trap of confusing a gifting for any of these activities with the calling to do it. To exercise a divine gift successfully does not make that gift into a calling - the latter only exists as a reality when it comes as a by-product of your personal communion with the Almighty.