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I’m here, I know it’s been a while, but Frank brought me back. I received a great comment from what I would consider a scripture sleuth on a previous post about Mary, Mother of God.
In it, Frank http://francisdrakeprivateer.wordpress.com/ said:
“Interesting thoughts.
I wonder where she first responded to the whisper of the spirit.
I ask this because a thought occured to me the other day about those who the Lord says he called from the womb.
John the baptist responded to the presence of Jesus in Mary’s womb whilst in the womb of Elizabeth.
Jeremiah also, -Jer1v5 [....]
It says to me that there are some whose first freewill response to the Lord is in the womb. This is long long before any possible intellectual understanding of what we call the gospel.
I wonder where Mary first said yes to the Lord”
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So this got me to wondering about free will. Calling. Responding to the Spirit. Scripture. And how that all applies to Grace.
I remember sitting in a church pew as a teenager. I remember actually liking to go, and forcing my parents to go. I had always been a little… well, you know. churchy. Despite never having gone to sunday school. Or church for that matter, it was my voice as a teenager that brought us there.
A sunny, warm midsummers Minnesota day… and I was bored out of my mind! The sermon…. was…. so… loooong!!! THAT was the first time I remember really ‘feeling’ it. That nudge. The Holy Spirit, talking and you think your imagining things, but yes, it was there…. I felt in my heart as plain as day… as real as can be, Him saying…
that will be you somedaySeriously. Really???
Well, I wasn’t going to become a Pastor. And I didn’t. But it makes me wonder how many ‘calls’ we miss. It makes me think that Grace is more than we bargain for, as God continues to work with us…. and by us, I mean me.
Sure I can rattle off to you countless times in my life I followed His call, Helped His purpose… shared my Faith. But I can’t help thinking. Which ones did I ignore? Whose life did it affect?
I chuckle to think had I become a Pastor… the world is quite possibly better off. But how about the little things? Is it possible to change the world in one decision? Another clue~ I just watched ‘Pay it Forward‘ again!
These aren’t thoughts about getting to heaven or finding a closer relationship with God…. I am talking about the HERE and NOW. If I had given that man collecting cans on the side of the street the $20 bill I had in my purse a few years back, would that have changed the world? Because I didn’t, but the Spirit told me to. I don’t know what I spent it on. I kinda wish I did remember.
I just spoke to a friend about giving, and about how giving is more about the giver than the receiver. It isn’t about what he would have done with the $20… What did that money do to me… Spiritually…. and how has that affected my world?
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