The Gifts and Calling of God

February 6

The gifts and calling of God are without repentance. We may look upon ministers of the gospel and wonder at the grace of the Holy One who continues to allow His message to be set forth by individuals who have departed from devotion to Christ and set about to aggrandize self, to overflow personal coffers, through their ministry of the Word.

We are to know a tree by its fruit; we are to refrain from support of one who does not minister the word of God in truth, but we cannot allow ourselves to succumb to the kind of negative response that might result in our own plummet into another form of sin—that of judging a man’s heart. Only God Himself can weigh a man’s motives.

If we understand the words spoken by the brother of our Lord, we gain insight into God’s heart, for James 1:17 tells us, “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” Once a man is called to labor in God’s vineyard, he is allowed to continue to work there.

Though his heart may change toward the things of God, though he may mistake the blessings with which the Father lavishes him as gain his own resourcefulness has accrued to him, yet will the Holy One not remove him from his position. No, He will allow his recalcitrance to come to the fruition it deserves and judge it on that final day!