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The Promise Behind The Call
Judges 13:4-5 '[The Angel said to the wife of Manoah] "Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean, because you will conceive and give birth to a son. No razor may be used on his head, because the boy is to be a Nazirite, set apart to God from birth, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hands of the Philistines."'
 From his youth Samson was aware the he'd been called by God to the very disciplined life of a Nazarite. It meant there were certain things he would have to forego, certain places he just wouldn't go, because of the call of God on his life. But he was also given a promise – he would be the deliverer of a nation! Sometimes, when God calls us to something, we see only the cost of the calling. We miss the power of the great promise that goes with the call. God never issues a call without providing a promise. And the promise will always give us the courage to make the sacrifices we need to make. In comparison with that promise, those sacrifices will seem small! A woman once approached the great missionary explorer David Livingstone, on one of his few trips back to England. 'Oh Mr. Livingstone,' she said. 'What sacrifices you have made for the will of God!' He replied, 'Madam, the only real sacrifice would have been to miss the will of God!'
Prayer: 'Father God, help me today to see that the sacrifices I need make to follow your call are nothing compared to the blessing you've promised me! Help me to focus on the promise, not the cost.'
© 2003-2004 Mal Fletcher
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