The Call

1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others. 3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- Genesis 12:1-4

The call of Abraham, is one of the most challenging endeavour in life that GOD  would ask any of HIS servant to do. But it is such a wonderful priviledge to be called by GOD, for to be called by GOD to another place is a great adventure anyone would ever have in the journey of life and faith. The call of Abraham is to leave everything you would ever know, leaving your comfort zone, family and friends. It is to go out from the familiar to the unfamiliar and trust GOD with your life, that wherever HE calls you, HE will take care and provide for you. All that comes with the call is the irresistable promises of GOD that anyone would ever desire to have in their life. 

But it takes a lot of faith to embrace and respond to the call of GOD in one's life. It is not enough to believe GOD with who HE says HE is, but to trust and surrender your life, your plans, your dreams into HIS plans, dreams and will for your life which is the best that you could possibly have. In the olden days, GOD has been calling men to Himself to take up on an exciting journey with HIM, and even in the days of Paul GOD has been faithfully revealing Himself to those that He has chosen to serve HIM. Our faithful GOD continues to call all of us, not some, but all of us. But are we hungry enough to seek HIS face and receive HIS call. If we do not even have the need, the hunger, the thirst, to know and be connected with an Almighty Being, we will never bother to stop from our day to day schedules and seek to find this great GOD who created us and loved us from the very begining. Do you feel that there should be more to life than just the here and now? Is there a deep longing in your life, a missing hole in your heart that you cannot explain? Take time to stop and seek the Creator of all things because HE is calling you.

Following Jesus

19 Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!” 20 And they left their nets at once and followed him.
21 A little farther up the shore he saw two other brothers, James and John, sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, repairing their nets. And he called them to come, too. 

22 They immediately followed him, leaving the boat and their father behind.

Matthew 4:19:22

The call of Jesus is not for certain people that are chosen by GOD. The call of Jesus to follow Him is for everyone that has ever lived on earth. When we respond to the call of GOD and accept it with eagerness and willingness, we are those that are chosen by GOD, because we chose to respond to GOD. When GOD calls us our destinies will depend on whether we are respondent to GOD's call or passively ignoring it. Not too many people respond and the ones who do respond have become chosen. Two of them are Jesus disciples James and John, who with the first call of Jesus acted immediately leaving their work, their family and everything that they have ever known in life - their comfort zone.

If you are one that is seeking for the truth, you will be one searching the scriptures of the Bible because it is the Truth! Reading the Bible, we hear GOD's call upon our lives when we get through this scripture in Matthew, but even before Matthew, GOD has been calling people. Starting in Genesis GOD has been calling men to follow HIM and one of the very special man who responded to that call with such great faith that left everything behind, including his father is the great Abraham. Abraham is one of Jesus first disciples while Jesus was still with the Father in Heaven. He has been following Jesus without having to see His physical face, and only to hear His voice. And now it is back to how it was being done from the very begining since Jesus ascended to Heaven, following Jesus without having to see Him physically but hearing His every word each day.