The call of the Holy Spirit is unique. The Spirit empowers and leads people according to God’s will. For me I have wondered how we are supposed to decipher the call of the Holy Spirit. I would like to focus on the
individual call from the Spirit and how we as followers of Christ are to determine a true call of the Spirit from mere intuition. What does a call from the Spirit look like? How do we know that this is God? Is it wrong to question and wrestle with God’s will? These are the types of questions I have been struggling with. With regard to missions I believe that the call of the Spirit is difficult to interpret. How do we know what’s real? The call of the Spirit works differently to different people, but one thing is constant; the Spirit calls us to do something we were not doing before. For me this call can be personified in this saying “get up and go out”. As followers of Christ we are called to be in an actively growing relationship. The embodiment of this call is to go and be actively involved in not only Christ but his Church as well. The Body of Christ his Church is complied of sent people. The Church which is made up of these sent people are commissioned to constantly proclaim the Gospel. Truly living your life for Christ alleviates fear and doubt. It takes absolute faith grounded in Christ to accept the call of the Spirit. The call of the Spirit acts to move people toward God’s will. It calls people to truly serve God and do his will. I believe that in one way or another the Spirit is calling us to “get up and go out”.
-Cory
I like what you are saying Cory. I think the Spirit definately calls us to get up and go out and that’s all we can be really sure about. What you’re saying Sean happens all the time. It’s difficult to watch, but it’s not like we know any better than anyone else what the Spirit is saying to others or to ourselves. Listening and understanding the Spirit’s leadings are difficult and it’s good to see people wrestling with these issues.
I agree Cory. It is really hard. How do we know? What do we do when we aren’t that positive? I think one of the more interesting aspects of this discussion can deal with using the call of God as an excuse. People do a lot of things ‘in the name of God’, those things fail or don’t end up well, and then they use the excuse that it wasn’t God in the first place and brush off their poor decisions based on that statement. What are your thoughts on that? Thank you for the post.