Walking Faithfully

It’s funny to me to have this website.  In fact, I am truly amazed.  God has done a miracle in my life and today it’s WalkingFaithfully.com.  Now don’t get me wrong, I have been blessed with miracles before this.  I have seen the miraculous in my life.  But, little ‘ole me, founder, editor, and walker of any website is above and beyond anything that I could have asked for or thought.

As I praise God for His infinite wisdom in placing me in this place today, I am handing it all back over to Him.  I would not have fathomed this for myself.  So, I know it is God’s doing.  And, therefore, He must take care of it.  It’s amusing that when God calls us to do something and we accept, it usually is too big for us to get our mind around. We are dumbfounded.  We are off of your game.  We ask God questions like where do I begin or how do I accomplish this thing?  And, God has all of those answers prepared for each of us before they come out of our mouths.  When we place our hands in His and say lead me Lord, I’ll go, He takes over and gives each of us instruction along the way.  We must just follow it.

And, so I am. As I was spending time with God, He began to show me a piece of Psalm 127.  All He gave me to start were two words quiver full.  I instantly thought He was going to give me insight about His instructions about our children.  But, of course, God never went in the direction I expected.  He showed me something new and insightful about how I am used to further His kingdom.

After I remembered, of course I used my concordance to find it, where the scripture appeared in the Bible, God told me to review the whole chapter.  So, I found verse 1 to say “unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.”  God wants us to know that He is the one who placed our callings in our lives.  He is the one who controls our callings.  And, most importantly our callings are His to protect and build, not ours.

Reading on, I discovered the verse to say” in vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for He grants sleep to those He loves.”  I thought this was interesting because here in America, we are taught early to bed, early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.  We are also taught that we need to work more hours than the next person to be successful.  God doesn’t want us to be consumed with our calling.  We are to take reasonable time with it.   We are  to take times of rest, enjoy our family and friends, take vacations that leaves our work behind, and just spend time doing other things including home chores.  God will ensure that we are successful in our calling.

Next, Psalms 127:3 says “sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.”  Our calling is God’s heritage.  It’s His legacy on earth, in Spirit, and through Heaven.  The children which are the fruit or rather byproducts of our calling are His reward.  Those people who become saved because we walked in our calling.  Those people who have a better walk with Christ because they met you.  Those things are God’s rewards when we are performing in our calling.

God furthers tells us in Psalms 127:4 that our calling is like a warrior with his weapons at ready.  Its exact wording is “like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one’s youth.”  Understand that this warrior is prepared for battle.  Because he is prepared, he will win.  Our callings are God’s weapons and He will win the battles with the enemy through us.  Now, don’t be scared about this. Please know that God wins the war.

Then, I finally get to the words that God gave me at the beginning – quiver full.  They are found in Psalms 127:5 which reads,” blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate.”  God is blessed by us when we are acting in our callings.  He is happy because His quiver is full.  We should be walking in our blessing and happiness because our callings are in God’s quiver.  A quiver is the case an archer uses to carry or hold his arrows.  The archer uses her arrows to take out her target.  We are apart of God’s arsenal of attack on the enemy.  He uses each of us to demolish His enemy.  Therefore, we should not be ashamed of our calling.  Our God will handle our adversaries.  He will uplift our calling and control it and expand it.

We just need to allow Him to do all that He will do with our calling.  That is the hard part – giving it back to God.  But, it’s also the easiest part.  See God is the only one who can make our calling accomplish all that it is designed to do.  We can’t do it.  Our friends and family can’t do it.  Only God.  So with that I will quickly and completely hand back to Him my calling concerning WalkingFaithfully.com.  I know in His hands, it will accomplish and be all that it is to be.

Enjoy!